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

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

South Africa's rand was little changed on Thursday, a day after a key U.S. inflation report boosted hopes of a less ...

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

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

South Africa’s Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, the latest in a long line of ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

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

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

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