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 ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

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

A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

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

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...