Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.
Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...
(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, ...
According to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, illegal mining accounts for up to 30% of South Africa’s gold production ... illegal miners break perimeter fences to gain access to old ...
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Loveness Madangawa prepares lunch over an open fire in Mutare in eastern Zimbabwe - she has an electric stove, but power cuts caused partly by drought hitting the main hydropower station means she has ...