Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped ...

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

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

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

Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...

The tragedy at Buffelsfontein is a symptom of deeper systemic failures within South Africa’s governance and mining sectors. Disused shafts like those at Buffelsfontein have become sites 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 ...

(Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations which started on Monday.