A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

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

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

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

More than 100 people are believed to have died from starvation or dehydration, with at least 24 bodies and 34 survivors being brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in the town of Stilfontein ...

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. The mine near the town of ...

Hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped in an abandoned shaft at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa for months (Denis Farrell/AP) Months after South African authorities initially ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa where dozens of ...

South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some of those accused of mining underground ...

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 ...

FILE: Three illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West on 28 November 2024. Picture: Katlego Jiyane/EWN CAPE TOWN - Police ...

the GNH.today's index showed that happiness was not very sensitive to Trump’s inauguration and that the decrease in happiness since the weekend was more likely due to the Illegal Mining Tragedy ...