A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

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

The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

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

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

and the South African government is under scrutiny for the way it has dealt with the issue at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, where more than 100 miners are believed to have died underground of ...

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.

More than 240 survivors have been rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, Stilfontein, since operations began. Many of the miners, labeled "Zama zamas—"hustlers" in the Zulu language—for their ...

Gen. Patrick Asaneng said that it was an embarrassment to the police operation. Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally ...

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

Police said the miners were refusing to come out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine for fear of arrest, but Mnguni said they had been left trapped underground after police removed the ropes they used ...

and the South African government is under scrutiny for the way it has dealt with the issue at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, where more than 100 miners are believed to have died underground of ...