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

The saga of illegal miners reportedly trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein mine in North West has been in the ... That is not how a democratic South Africa, subscribing to human rights ...

At least 100 illegal miners have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped underground for months in an abandoned gold mine in North West province, South Africa. The group ...

Cape Town: 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 ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

A map of a gold mine in Buffelsfontein, South Africa: Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of ...

Efforts to bring miners to the surface were hampered by the complex structure of Buffelsfontein, one of South Africa's deepest mines, with workers scattered across different levels and shafts.

and five South Africans. 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 ...

FILE: Three illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West on 28 November ... Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) alleging ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has ... to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa's government for failing to prevent what they call a "massacre" at the Buffelsfontein ... underground in Orkney, North West, forcing them to emerge ...