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

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 ...

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 ... his fellow miners had to resort to eating flies, cockroaches and other insects.

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

Two survivors of a mining disaster in South Africa have claimed some of their colleagues 'resorted to cannibalism' in order ...

South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein ... many people feel they have no choice but to resort to illegal mining to provide for their ...

The government of South Africa launched a rescue operation to extract the illegal workers at the abandoned Stilfontein mine - Getty Images ...

Ian Cameron discusses SA’s Crime Intelligence scandals, police corruption, oversight challenges, and strategies to combat ...

Others were delirious, mumbling incoherently or calling out for loved ones they would never see again His choice to resort to illegally entering ... led to the surfacing of more than 1,500 people in ...