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

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

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

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

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

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at an abandoned ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...

South Africa gold mine - with hundreds still trapped - Death toll is expected to rise as rescuers pull out both surviors and ...

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

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...