A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

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

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

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

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

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

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

Civil rights groups say at least 100 people have died from starvation since October when the authorities sealed off shafts at ...