Police have rubbished claims that officers detonated explosives at Stilfontein’s Shaft 10 during a rescue operation.

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

South Africa’s Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe defended the government’s heavy-handed measures, describing illegal mining as ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...