South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...
It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...
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 ...
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 ...
South Africa — Rescuers were sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines on Tuesday in an attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines. It comes after more than 100 are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration. It is in an attempt to ...
Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.