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

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

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

Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its role in the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in ...

Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

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

The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine's Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water ...

South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold ... a strong reaction across South Africa, where illegal mining is ...

The death of up to 100 miners at Stilfontein reflects a callous and couldn't-care-less attitude that has developed in the government, and sadly throughout much of society (white and black). It is that ...

South Africa's second biggest political party ... “The scale of the disaster underground at Buffelsfontein is rapidly proving to be as bad as feared,” the Democratic Alliance party said.