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

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

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

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

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

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

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

The South African Police Service confirmed the deaths of at least 78 people on Wednesday following the end of a rescue ...