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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

More than 240 survivors have been rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, Stilfontein, since operations began. Many of the miners, labeled "Zama zamas—"hustlers" in the Zulu language—for their ...

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 ...

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

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 ...