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

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

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

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

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

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...