The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

South Africa’s Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, the latest in a long line of ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African rescuers have pulled at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine over two days, ...

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

South African officials have arrested more than 100 miners who had been trapped in an illegal gold mine and will detain ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...