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 ...

Illegal miners from the Stilfontein Mine in the North West have ... and hunger has caused them to resort to cannibalism South Africans were stunned and demanded that they come out and face the ...

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 ...