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 ...

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

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

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

(AP Video by Alfonso Nqunjana) Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

South African police say there's nobody left in ... when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally. At first, Tom says ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...