Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...

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

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

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 ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...

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 ...

Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...

The prevalence of illegal mining  was brought into sharp focus by the prolonged removal of zama zamas from 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 ...

THE Marikana massacre was considered to be the most lethal use of force by South African security forces since the 1976 Soweto riots: 34 men shot dead by SAPS members when they opened fire on a group ...