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.

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

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 ...

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 been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein ...

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

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine south west of Johannesburg, police said. In total, 87 of them died underground, with 78 bodies retrieved in ...