Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

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

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

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

They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...

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

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine southwest ... Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused or abandoned ...

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police ... he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally.

Authorities have come under scrutiny for refusing to help the miners for months and claiming they were able to get out on ...