The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
An illegal miner who was retrieved by law enforcement at the Stilfontein shaft in the North West has revealed ... his fellow miners had to resort to eating flies, cockroaches and other insects. But, ...
At least 20 Zimbabwean nationals have been confirmed dead after being trapped in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South ...
The government of South Africa launched a rescue operation to extract the illegal workers at the abandoned Stilfontein mine - Getty Images ...
A miner is carried on a stretcher after being rescued from a disused gold mine shaft in Stilfontein Last week rescuers retrieved 78 bodies and 246 survivors from abandoned shafts of one of the ...