SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

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

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

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

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that ...

South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of ...

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

and the South African government is under scrutiny for the way it has dealt with the issue at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, where more than 100 miners are believed to have died underground of ...