A map of a gold mine in Buffelsfontein, South Africa: Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of ...

A map of a gold mine in Buffelsfontein, South Africa: Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of ...

South African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...

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

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has ... to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

FILE: Three illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein gold ... General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) alleging the South African ...

They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa ...

South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP ... vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized ...