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

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 ...

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped ...

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

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

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

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

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

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

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