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

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

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

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

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

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

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

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

South Africa’s mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous ...