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

Late last year, a specialized mine rescue camera was lowered into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South ...

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

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

Newly sworn-in U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will declare illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border a ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

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

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

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

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

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...

South African police are searching for 'Tiger,' a gang leader involved in an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were found.