A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

South African authorities have declared their rescue of any miners still trapped in an illegal mine in Stilfontein to be over. Following a court order ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

South African authorities face growing anger over their handling of a standoff with illegal miners trapped in an abandoned ...

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

The South African Police Service confirmed the deaths of at least 78 people on Wednesday following the end of a rescue operation at an abandoned mine where miners, cut off from food and water, had ...