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

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

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

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Meanwhile, social and labour plans meant to support retrenched miners are often poorly implemented, leaving many with no viable economic alternatives. The Buffelsfontein miners’ plight mirrors ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners’ lives, and the incendiary language used by public ...

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 ...

Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners' lives, and the incendiary language used by public ...