The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

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

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

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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