Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought emaciated survivors to the surface Tuesday with hundreds more ...

How can one rationalise punishing miners in such a manner—miners who, in many cases, are themselves economic refugees from ...

Sixty bodies have been removed from a disused gold shaft in South Africa, months into a campaign to try to clear out illegal miners, police said Wednesday.

In South Africa, authorities have retrieved at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine following a siege aimed at ...

South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more than 2 km (1.2 miles) ...

The operation to rescue illegal miners trapped for weeks underground in the northeastern South African town of Stilfontein, believed to number in the hundreds, began Monday, with at least nine bodies ...

Residents desperately waiting for news of family members gathered at the mine, some holding placards criticizing authorities ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

One hundred and eighteen illegal miners have been extracted from the Stilfontein mine in South Africa on Monday and Tuesday ...

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

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...