A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...

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

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

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

The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

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

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 ...

Police have called an end to a rescue operation that was launched in South Africa to rescue about 300 illegal miners known as ...

In South Africa, nearly 2,000 illegal miners faced starvation and dire conditions in abandoned mines after a police crackdown. Many miners died due to lack of food and supplies. This illegal mining ...