Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

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

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

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

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

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

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

They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...

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