South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

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

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

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

In South Africa, a months-long standoff between police and illegal gold miners has resulted in over 100 deaths. This surge in ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

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

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

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

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...