Cockroaches on top of food cans, garbage smells around a motel, problems with water pressure and temperature, filthy kitchen ...

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

While he and his colleague insist they did not take part, they were forced into their own desperate acts, eating cockroaches after running out of food. Last week rescuers retrieved 78 bodies and 246 ...

He said that he used to fill his stomach by eating cockroaches. Speaking to the BBC, a rescuer said, “The way I saw the rotting corpses in the mine was a very difficult time. The dead bodies ...