A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

Police in the North West have arrested five illegal miners who resurfaced at Margaret Shaft in Stilfontein. Two of the ...

The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. That ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

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

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...