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

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

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

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of South Africa, to try to force hundreds of illegal ...

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

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

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

At least 87 miners died in the monthslong standoff between police and the miners who were trapped while working illegally in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week. Authorities ...

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The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year after a standoff with police. The miners, trapped a mile below the ground, were recently evacuated.

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 ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.