Families of illegal miners plan to sue the government for accountability following the tragic deaths of zama zamas in a North ...

Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The South African Police Service confirmed the deaths of at least 78 people on Wednesday following the end of a rescue operation at an abandoned mine where miners, cut off from food and water, had ...

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

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...