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

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

This followed accusations from union GIWUSA alleging SAPS arrested Mzwandile Mkwayi to prevent him from speaking about the ...

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

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

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

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water ...