More than 70 people have reportedly died while trapped in a mine after a monthlong standoff with the South African government ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

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

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports.

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 ...

The crane would occasionally stop and start, leaving him dangling in the darkness. Once he got down into the mine, he was ...

Police have called an end to a rescue operation that was launched in South Africa to rescue about 300 illegal miners known as ZamaZamas trapped more than two kilometres underground. Police launched an ...

The latest tragedy has seen at least 78 bodies and over 200 survivors brought to the surface from a mine in Stilfontein.

How resources are developed, and where capital is allocated, will determine whether the continent becomes a leader in the ...

It will be a 'mammoth task' to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

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