This followed accusations from union GIWUSA alleging SAPS arrested Mzwandile Mkwayi to prevent him from speaking about the ...

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

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

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

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

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

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

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 ...

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 ...

As per a report by The Telegraph, two survivors revealed that miners resorted to cannibalism, eating the body parts of their ...

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of South Africa, to try to force hundreds of illegal ...