Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

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

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

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

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under ... an operation in November to force out the men ...

A map of a gold mine in Buffelsfontein, South Africa: Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of ...

The saga of illegal miners reportedly trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein mine in North ... That is not how a democratic South Africa, subscribing to human rights, should behave.

Hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped in an abandoned shaft at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa for months (Denis Farrell/AP) Rescuers were sending a cage-like structure into on ...

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