Sixty bodies have been removed from a disused gold shaft in South Africa, months into a campaign to try to clear out illegal miners, police said Wednesday.

The South African government faces criticism over the deaths of at least 60 unlicenced miners trapped during a police siege ...

Al Jazeera’s Hatu Mutasa reports from Stilfontein as rescue workers bring miners to the surface after being trapped in an ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

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

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought emaciated survivors to the surface Tuesday with hundreds more ...

In South Africa, authorities have retrieved at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine following a siege aimed at ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

One hundred and eighteen illegal miners have been extracted from the Stilfontein mine in South Africa on Monday and Tuesday ...