By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

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

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

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

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

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...