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

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

In South Africa, a months-long standoff between police and illegal gold miners has resulted in over 100 deaths. This surge in ...

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

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

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

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

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft is just one of 6 000 that have been abandoned by South Africa's gold extraction companies.

Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...