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 accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

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

But that tactic has been fiercely criticized by civic groups and the community, and the South African government is under scrutiny for the way it has dealt with the issue at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

More than 240 survivors have been rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, Stilfontein, since operations began. Many of the miners, labeled "Zama zamas—"hustlers" in the Zulu language—for their ...

Gen. Patrick Asaneng said that it was an embarrassment to the police operation. Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally ...

South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, one of the deepest in the mineral-rich country. But activists said ...

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

The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...