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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining ...

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

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

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...