In South Africa, nearly 2,000 illegal miners faced starvation and dire conditions in abandoned mines after a police crackdown. Many miners died due to lack of food and supplies. This illegal mining ...

The miners were emaciated from lack of food, which was hard to come by since police cracked down on their illegal mining and ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

Police have called an end to a rescue operation that was launched in South Africa to rescue about 300 illegal miners known as ...

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

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 ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

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

Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...