Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

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

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

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

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

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

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

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein ...

This followed accusations from union GIWUSA alleging SAPS arrested Mzwandile Mkwayi to prevent him from speaking about the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...