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 ...

An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

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 ...

More than 240 survivors have been rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold ... has been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025.

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police ... he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally.

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

Gold-rich South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned ... said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South ...