Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

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

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Meanwhile, social and labour plans meant to support retrenched miners are often poorly implemented, leaving many with no viable economic alternatives. The Buffelsfontein miners’ plight mirrors ...

Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners’ lives, and the incendiary language used by public ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...

Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners' lives, and the incendiary language used by public ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners' situation drew the attention of rights groups. Activists ...