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

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

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

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought ...

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

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

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

A rescue operation is underway at an abandoned South African gold mine where illegal miners were trapped. Initially, over 78 ...

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 ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...