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

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

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

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine STILFONTEIN, South Africa -- Rescuers and volunteers have pulled ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster ... Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.

Some are former mine workers, now unemployed ... buyers and traders, and smugglers who carry gold from South Africa to Dubai.

A gang leader suspected of running illegal gold mining operations in South Africa has escaped police custody. An investigation and manhunt have been launched to find him and those who helped him get ...

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...