Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ... across South Africa, where illegal mining is often in the ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after ...
Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...
They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...
The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster ... Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million ...