Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

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

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

South Africa's High Court has mandated the immediate rescue of trapped miners at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, highlighting ...

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

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

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 ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...