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

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

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

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

The bodies of 78 zama zamas were recovered from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this ... Zimbabwe's Consul-General in South Africa, Eria Phiri, said it's unclear yet who will foot the bill for ...

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 ...

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 ...