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

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

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

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

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...

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