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 ...
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 ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
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 ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...