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 come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush ... South African authorities began their operation at the ...
They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...
Residents desperately waiting for news of family members gathered at the mine, some holding placards criticizing authorities ...
Civil rights groups say at least 100 people have died from starvation since October when the authorities sealed off shafts at ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...