A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water, and other essential ...

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

Gold-rich South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned ... said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho who were in South Africa ...

Gold-rich South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned ... said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South ...

At least 100 illegal miners have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped underground for months in an abandoned gold mine in North West province, South Africa. The group ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster ... Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million ...

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine southwest of Johannesburg ... hospital for further medical care.” Illegal mining is rife at some of South ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled ... have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, one of the deepest in ...