Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

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

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

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

Authorities faced growing anger and a possible investigation over their initial refusal to help the miners and instead “smoke ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

Over two dozen illegal miners were rescued and at least 15 bodies recovered from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, as ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of ...