The state has been accused of deliberately allowing the deaths of the miners who perished in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, ...

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

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

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

North West Health MEC Sello Lehari will provide an update today, on the completion of autopsies of deceased illegal miners ...

Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

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