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

By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

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

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

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...

A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

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

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

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