Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

AP South Africa’s Buffelsfontein Gold Mine has become the center of a storm. Civic groups say at least 100 miners have died in an abandoned gold mine and that hundreds of others remain trapped deep ...

A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped for months. Despite efforts, over 100 miners have died of starvation or ...

An operation to rescue the miners from the Buffelsfontein mine, 160km west of Johannesburg, began on Monday after a judge ordered authorities to act on humanitarian grounds. Harrowing accounts ...