Rescue workers were conducting a final sweep at a mine in Stilfontein in the North West province on Thursday to determine ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

The Stilfontein Crisis Committee said even though all surviving miners have been rescued, the shaft is littered with body ...

A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at an abandoned ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...

National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe, speaks to journalist outside an abandoned gold mine, where miners are rescued ...

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...

A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.

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