Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

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

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

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

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

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

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

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

Rescuers have spent Tuesday pulling body bags and survivors from a South African mine where scores of illegal miners are ...

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

South Africa's rand hovered near a nine-month low early on Monday against a buoyant dollar, amid an uncertain outlook for ...