Al Jazeera’s Hatu Mutasa reports from Stilfontein, South Africa, as rescue workers bring trapped miners to the surface.

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

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

Hundreds more people could be underground following a monthslong effort to force them out of the mine.Months after efforts ...

Thirty-six bodies have been lifted from an abandoned South African gold mine over two days, police say. There are fears dozens of people are still underground despite a months-long effort to force ...

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

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

Judicial Conduct Tribunal finding against the judge shows the vital role of activists in holding public officials accountable ...

South African officials will arrest hundreds of miners trapped in an abandoned illegal gold mine, the country’s mining minister said, despite a judge’s warning that the ordeal risks turning into “the ...

South African rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors to the surface of a goldmine on Tuesday (Wednesday ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...

Australian flag carrier Qantas has had to delay several flights on the Sydney-Johannesburg route over the past few weeks on ...