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 ...
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 two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
Some 324 people were pulled out of the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine around 150 kilometres from Johannesburg last week, ending a months-long standoff between the illegal miners and the police.
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 ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
A miner is carried on a stretcher after being ... In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of ...