The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...

Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...

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

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...

Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...