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 ...

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

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 ...

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

An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the ...

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 ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners’ situation drew the attention of rights groups. Activists ...

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 ...

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 ...