In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

The latest tragedy has seen at least 78 bodies and over 200 survivors brought to the surface from a mine in Stilfontein.

It will be a 'mammoth task' to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...

The crane would occasionally stop and start, leaving him dangling in the darkness. Once he got down into the mine, he was ...

This is arguably the worst mass murder of miners due to state actions and a series of decisions since the dawn of democracy, ...

Families of illegal miners plan to sue the government for accountability following the tragic deaths of zama zamas in a North ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...