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

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

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

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...

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

First, some good news – because a lot of readers probably need a bit of good news this week. According to the climate think ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water, and other essential ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described by a prominent Cabinet minister, was ...

At least 87 miners died in the monthslong standoff between police and the miners who were trapped while working illegally in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week. Authorities ...

Their lights illuminated a sea of emaciated faces, men crowded into a chamber who were crying and pleading to be saved from the pitch black of the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine. The miners ...

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 groups. Activists ...

South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die underground as authorities attempted ...