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

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Athlenda Mathe, national spokesperson for the South African police, defended the operation. "Our mandate was to combat criminality and that is exactly what we've been doing," Mathe said at the ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing ...

Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

However, on Thursday afternoon, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said that they believed the number was exaggerated and maybe be far less than that, estimating a figure of between 350 and 400 ...

Seventy-eight corpses, along with more than 240 illegal miners, have been hoisted to the surface since Monday as part of a ...

Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the death toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police finished clearing out illegal miners who had been underground for months.

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...