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 ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their access to food and water.

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

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.

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

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

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