The tally comes on the third day of the final phase of a government-led plan to clamp down on illicit gold mining in the area.

Official communiques 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 built on the ...

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

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

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

Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police try to ...

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...

South African police say they have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where scores of illegal miners were trapped and believe they rescued all the survivors and retrieved all the bodie ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police announce sudden end of mine rescue operation, say they believe all survivors and bodies retrieved.

More than 1,500 illegal miners have been arrested at Stilfontein since August, when authorities first started to remove them ...