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

By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

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 ...

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 ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

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

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...