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 ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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