At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.

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

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

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

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

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

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police ... of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, but Zinzi Tom's brother wasn't among ...

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.