Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...
Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...
Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...
The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.
SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...
The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine's Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...
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 ...
Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...