The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

SAPS faces mounting pressure as controversy erupts over plans to dismantle its internal watchdog, the National Police ...

No illegal miners remain underground after four days of a rescue operation at the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine in South Africa's North West Province, police confirmed Thursday.

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

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

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

South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a months-long police siege. The Giwusa labour union called the ...

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

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

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

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...