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

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 ...

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

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

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

Tom hasn't heard from her brother, Ayanda, since July 2024, when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally. At first ...

NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations ...

South African authorities have argued that the miners were able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, one of the deepest in the mineral-rich country. But activists said that would ...

The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...