South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

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

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

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

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...

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

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

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...