The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

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 illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year after a standoff with police. The miners, trapped a mile below the ground, were recently evacuated.

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

The illegal gold miners had been trapped in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 150km from Johannesburg. Survivors have spoken out about their desperate efforts to stay alive as they grew ...

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 ...

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

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