The death toll from an incident involving illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to 78, according ...

The calls come after close to 80 dead bodies were pulled from an abandoned gold mine this week in a government-led operation to shutdown illicit mining networks in the North West.

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...

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

Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...

JOHANNESBURG -- A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at ...

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