Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic ...
South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...
Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...
JOHANNESBURG -- A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at ...
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of ...