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

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 ...

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

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

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

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

A total of 118 illegal miners, including 36 dead, have been extracted from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa. The ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...

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

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of ...