The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...

Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...

A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped for months. Despite efforts, over 100 miners have died of starvation or ...

The tragedy at Buffelsfontein is a symptom of deeper systemic failures within South Africa’s governance and mining sectors. Disused shafts like those at Buffelsfontein have become sites of ...

The miners were trapped in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein following a standoff with police that began in November, 2024. Police had launched an operation to force the miners ...