Rescuers are attempting to save hundreds of illegal miners trapped for months in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa, with over 100 feared dead from starvation or dehydration The miners ...

Their lights illuminated a sea of emaciated faces, men crowded into a chamber who were crying and pleading to be saved from the pitch black of the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine. The miners ...

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners’ situation drew the attention of rights groups. Activists ...

More than 100 people are believed to have died from starvation or dehydration, with at least 24 bodies and 34 survivors being brought out of the Buffelsfontein ... Over 500 miners are thought ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...