South Africa’s winter turned harsh this week as snow, wind chill and icy temperatures swept across the country.

The most shocking thing for Jonathan, who had endured six gruelling months living and working underground in an abandoned South African gold mine, was the abuse he witnessed being meted out to ...

Save the Children South Africa have said that adults working ... Last year a standoff between police and miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine, near the town of Stilfontein, saw authorities ...

South Africa's illegal mining industry made global headlines last year following a standoff between police and miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine, near the town of Stilfontein in the North ...

A SECTION of Buffelsfontein Road will be closed off and motorists rerouted from this week with the start of the second phase of the the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Walmer/Gqebera Stormwater ...

and authorities have said the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho and were in South Africa illegally. Police, who said they seized gold ...

South Africa's second-biggest political party ... “The scale of the disaster underground at Buffelsfontein is rapidly proving to be as bad as feared,” the Democratic Alliance party said.