A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

The state has been accused of deliberately allowing the deaths of the miners who perished in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, ...

The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...

JOHANNESBURG - As an intense search for an alleged illegal mining ringleader continues in Stilfontein, some activists have ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

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

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

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

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...

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

Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...