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

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more ...

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

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

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

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

Thirty-six bodies have been lifted out of an abandoned South African gold mine over two days, police said Tuesday, with fears ...

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

A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an isiZulu expression for "taking a chance" - move into mines abandoned by ...

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...