The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...
A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped ...
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 ...
South Africa's High Court has mandated the immediate rescue of trapped miners at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, highlighting ...
South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...
Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
The miners were trapped in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein following a standoff with police that began in November, 2024. Police had launched an operation to force the miners ...