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

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

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

Meanwhile, social and labour plans meant to support retrenched miners are often poorly implemented, leaving many with no viable economic alternatives. The Buffelsfontein miners’ plight mirrors ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Some 324 people were pulled out of the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine around 150 kilometres from Johannesburg last week, ending a months-long standoff between the illegal miners and the police.

The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine's Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and ...

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

The illegal gold miners had been trapped in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 150km from Johannesburg. Survivors have spoken out about their desperate efforts to stay alive as they grew ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying ... In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein ...

A miner is carried on a stretcher after being ... In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of ...