Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

Athlenda Mathe, national spokesperson for the South African police, defended the operation. "Our mandate was to combat criminality and that is exactly what we've been doing," Mathe said at the ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing ...

Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told reporters in November that vital supplies to those underground had been halted in a ...

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

Seventy-eight corpses, along with more than 240 illegal miners, have been hoisted to the surface since Monday as part of a ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...