CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, ...

In November last year, a specialized mine camera was lowered 1.6 miles into the Buffelsfontein mine in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were reported to be trapped – dying of starvation ...

In mid-January a year ago, shaft 11 of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine complex in Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, was a ...