Illegal miners trapped in the depths of a South African gold mine resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off their food supply to force them out, it has been revealed.

I am an anthropologist and I’ve been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three decades. I’ve also made a film with and about informal miners.

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

there are several South African Private Equity firms that specialise in resource-based investments with some having a particular interest in mining. Examples include funds focusing on gold and ...

one miner recalled how his colleagues ‘resorted to cannibalism’ South Africa is rich in gold, platinum, manganese and other metals, and the country is strewn with 6,000 abandoned mines that ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to survive. The illegal gold miners had been trapped in the abandoned ...

A cage set to retrieve hundreds of illegal miners from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has been assembled. Picture: Nokukhanya Mntambo/EWN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - A second miner has ...

ACCRA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Ghana plans to launch a Gold Board to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce smuggling, the west African country's newly ...

Cape Town: 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 ...