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 ...

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

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more ...

Thirty-six bodies have been lifted out of an abandoned South African gold mine over two days, police said Tuesday, with fears ...

A gang leader suspected of running illegal gold mining operations in South Africa has escaped police custody. An investigation and manhunt have been launched to find him and those who helped him get ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

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

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...