Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

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

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

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

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...

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 ...

At least 100 illegal miners have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped underground for months in ...