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

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

More than 70 people have reportedly died while trapped in a mine after a monthlong standoff with the South African government ...

The South African Police Service defended itself against claims that it arrested a volunteer, released information about ...

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

We need to know who was buying the gold, the methods used to transport it and who was complicit in facilitating these.