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 ...

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

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an ...

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

South Africa’s Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, the latest in a long line of ...

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

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

Toyota's South African Henk Lategan regained the overall lead in the Dakar Rally on Wednesday with a two minutes and 27 ...

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