The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...

Police in the North West have arrested five illegal miners who resurfaced at Margaret Shaft in Stilfontein. Two of the ...

The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...

Police in the North West have called for relatives of the 78 bodies that were recovered at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine’s shaft no. 11 during the Mine Res ...

As per a report by The Telegraph, two survivors revealed that miners resorted to cannibalism, eating the body parts of their ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

On January 10, the Gauteng High Court ordered the rescue of illegal miners who had refused to exit Shafts 10 and 11 of the ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water ...

Crackdown on the mine in Buffelsfontein A nation-wide crackdown on such miners ... the police removed the ropes, trapping the miners 2 km underground with no supplies. "There are makeshift shops ...

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile ... fiercely criticized for cutting off the miners in the ...