In mid-January a year ago, shaft 11 of the Buffelsfontein gold mine complex in Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, was a crowded rescue site. At the abandoned mine, forensic pathology workers in ...

South Africa’s engineering prowess has been hailed for the role it played in the rescue of 246 individuals from the Stilfontein mine tragedy. 78 people lost their lives tragically at the Stilfontein ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue effort ...

Last year's tragic events at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa show the danger of poor information in policing operations. In mid-January a year ago, shaft 11 of the Buffelsfontein gold mine ...