Rescue operations, which involve the use of a metal cage to recover men and bodies from a mine shaft more than 2 km ... added that two of them would face additional charges of being in possession ...

On Wednesday night, organizers said the three-day rescue operation had ended, with more than 240 survivors brought to the surface to face criminal ... cage into the mine shaft in a painfully ...

The situation at disused mine shafts in Stilfontein has been developing ... Enditem Follow China.org.cn on Twitter and Facebook to join the conversation.

A South African Police Services (Saps) vehicle is parked near the mine shaft in Stilfontein on 17 ... Pictures: Winnie Khumalo/Facebook and @radio2000ZA/X One tends to learn new things about ...

Government says a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas, have voluntarily emerged from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein ... to surface safely and face due legal processes.

In Ringwood he scaled down the side of a cliff using an old iron stranded rope to get into an inclined shaft. He drank from a spring deep inside a mine in Ellenville, New York, and ate lunch ...

Rescuers have pulled out at least 60 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in South Africa, police said - adding that the survivors would all face illegal mining and immigration charges.

Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining heartland ... Hundreds are due to face charges in courts. Private companies have also pledged to crack ...

A system of pulleys and ropes installed by members of the South Africa Police Service is set up over an entrance to a disused gold mine shaft in Stilfontein, around 150 kilometres south-west of ...