In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

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

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

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

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

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

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

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...

A deadly crackdown at an illegal gold mine in South Africa's Stilfontein has claimed at least 78 lives, with hundreds more feared trapped. The operation, criticized by unions for negligence, has ...

A planned visit to the Stilfontein mining site by the Acting National Commissioner Lieutenant General Tebello Mosikili was postponed earlier this week “due to heavy rains in the North West”.

An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the lives of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West.