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

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

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 access to food and water.

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Illegal mining is often in the news in South Africa and a major problem for authorities as large groups go into mines that ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of ... has not stoked a strong reaction across South Africa, where illegal mining is often in the news. The practice is common at mines that ...