Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...
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 ...
Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...
As per a report by The Telegraph, two survivors revealed that miners resorted to cannibalism, eating the body parts of their ...
At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...
Illegal mining is waging war on the South African economy, with the illicit trade costing the economy at least R60 billion in ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...