By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

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

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

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

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

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

The Democratic Alliance, the second-biggest party in the governing coalition, calls for an independent inquiry.

In one of the videos released by a trade union, the General Industries Workers of South Africa (Giwusa), dozens of shirtless ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped underground for about two months, following one of the most extraordinary tragedies ...

South African officials have arrested more than 100 miners who had been trapped in an illegal gold mine and will detain ...

Rescuers have hoisted several dead bodies from an abandoned South African gold mine amid claims that hundreds are still ...