Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police ... of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, but Zinzi Tom's brother wasn't among ...
A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...
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