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 ...

Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

Two survivors of a mining disaster in South Africa have claimed some of their colleagues 'resorted to cannibalism' in order ...

On January 10, the Gauteng High Court ordered the rescue of illegal miners who had refused to exit Shafts 10 and 11 of the former Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, at Stilfontein, in the North West ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein ... once a thriving hub for gold mining, had been in decline since the ...

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