Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster ... Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.
South African police are searching for a Lesotho gang leader, known as 'Tiger', who escaped during a police operation at an ...
An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...