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

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

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

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

Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners' situation drew the attention of rights ...

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

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

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.

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described by a ...

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.