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

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

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

They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...

Food and other supplies were cut off to those inside the mine by local authorities who want the miners to surrender to police because they were mining illegally.

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

South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ... across South Africa, where illegal mining is often in the ...

Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its role in the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.

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

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

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...