As per a report by The Telegraph, two survivors revealed that miners resorted to cannibalism, eating the body parts of their ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

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

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

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

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

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

FILE: Three illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West on 28 November 2024. Picture: Katlego Jiyane/EWN CAPE TOWN - Police ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of South Africa, to try to force hundreds of illegal ...