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

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 ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

(AP Video by Alfonso Nqunjana) Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

South African police say there's nobody left in ... when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally. At first, Tom says ...

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...