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

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

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

In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

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 ...

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

Some 324 people were pulled out of the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine around 150 kilometres from Johannesburg last week, ending a months-long standoff between the illegal miners and the police.

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

The North West Health Department was on Wednesday unable to give timelines for the start of preparations for the ...

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...