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

In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...

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 ...

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

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

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

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...

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

First, some good news – because a lot of readers probably need a bit of good news this week. According to the climate think tank Ember, the European Union generated more electricity from the sun than ...

Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners’ lives, and the incendiary language used by public ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described by a prominent Cabinet minister, was ...