Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...
Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein ...
AP South Africa’s Buffelsfontein Gold Mine has become the center of a storm. Civic groups say at least 100 miners have died in an abandoned gold mine and that hundreds of others remain trapped deep ...
A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped for months. Despite efforts, over 100 miners have died of starvation or ...
who have fiercely criticised police tactics at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, where more than 100 miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration. Relatives and friends protest near ...