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

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...

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

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...

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

We need to know who was buying the gold, the methods used to transport it and who was complicit in facilitating these.

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

The South African Police Service defended itself against claims that it arrested a volunteer, released information about ...