AT LEAST 100 illegal miners have died after becoming trapped in a South African gold mine for months on end. They had been in ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

Police say that at least 36 bodies and 82 survivors have been brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine since Friday, ...

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

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, ...

At least 100 people who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out, a group ...