South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

By Nellie Peyton and Xolani Nhlapo STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on ...

The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

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

By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

Opinion - Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State's representatives neither know nor care that the Buffelsfontein mine was ...

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

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...