At least 100 illegal miners have died and more than 400 remain trapped underground after a months-long standoff with police, ...

Authorities faced growing anger and a possible investigation over their initial refusal to help the miners and instead “smoke ...

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

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

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

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

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

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...