The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

James Neo Tshwaeli, also known as “Tiger”, allegedly made a daring escape after being rescued from an abandoned mine shaft at ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...

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 ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.

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

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 ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine by cutting off their food and water supplies from the surface.

unfolded last year after the police in August began blocking food and water from entering the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in a bid to try and force illegal miners back to the surface.