Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

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

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

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

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

Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine by cutting off their food and water supplies from the surface.

Civic organizations and groups representing the miners say that at least 24 bodies and 34 survivors have been brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine since Friday, but more than 500 miners are ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners' situation drew the attention of rights groups. Activists ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticised for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...