James Neo Tshwaeli, also known as “Tiger”, allegedly made a daring escape after being rescued from an abandoned mine shaft at ...

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

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

The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...

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

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

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

Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine by cutting off their food and water supplies from the surface.