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

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

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

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

An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

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 ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

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 ...

The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine's Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water ...

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

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein ...

Why Did 87 Miners Die Trapped Underground in South Africa as Police Tried to Force Their Surrender? CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry ...