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

The spat between police and labour union, the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (Giwusa), over allegations ...

A total of 66 illegal miners were rescued on Tuesday from shaft 11 in Stilfontein, North West, South Africa, during ongoing ...

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

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

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

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

Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...