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 ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners said, ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

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.

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.

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police ... of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, but Zinzi Tom's brother wasn't among ...

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