By Nellie Peyton and Xolani Nhlapo STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near ...
A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...
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, ...
Rescuers have sent a cagelike structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...