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 ...

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

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

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

The truth is, the mining and minerals sector remains key to the South African economy. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find any individual industry that doesn’t somehow intersect with mining – ...

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

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

Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its ...