Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

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

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

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

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein ...

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police ... he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally.

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