Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...
At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...
An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.
Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...
Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...
Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine's Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water ...
Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.