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 ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ... miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...

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 ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster ... Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...