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 ...
At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...
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 ...
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.