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

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...

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

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

The Department of Home Affairs says that its plans to digitise and secure South Africa’s passports will see it become an even ...

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 ...

South African officials have arrested more than 100 miners who had been trapped in an illegal gold mine and will detain ...

South Africa’s Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, the latest in a long line of ...

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

Toyota's South African Henk Lategan regained the overall lead in the Dakar Rally on Wednesday with a two minutes and 27 ...

Students are seen with their parent on the first day of a new semester at a school in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jan. 15, ...