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

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 ...

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

Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger ...

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

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing ... Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further ...

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

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP ... miners who were trapped while working illegally in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week. Authorities faced growing anger and ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa ... hub for gold mining, had ...