South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

AT LEAST 100 illegal miners have died after becoming trapped in a South African gold ... Mining Affected Communities United in Action Group (MACUA). Some 18 bodies have been brought out of the ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues “resorted to cannibalism”. “They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for ...

Cops said they blocked miners' supplies of food and water to force them out and arrest them for illegally entering the abandoned mine in search of leftover gold ... Thesun.co.uk is your ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought ... in co-operation with the UK Home Office.

James Neo Tshoaeli allegedly ran operations at an abandoned gold mine where 78 corpses were discovered. Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of ...