Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
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.
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...
They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing ... Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further ...
Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...
The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...