More than 250 illegal miners have been retrieved since the start of phase three this week, with 78 dead bodies being recovered.
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...
National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe, speaks to journalist outside an abandoned gold mine, where miners are rescued ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic ...
South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...
A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...