The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...
South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
Authorities in South Africa began rescuing hundreds of people sheltering in an illegal gold mine with videos showing corpses ...
In one of the videos released by a trade union, the General Industries Workers of South Africa (Giwusa), dozens of shirtless men can been seen sitting on a dirty floor. Their faces have been blurred.
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
A devastating situation has unfolded in South Africa's North West province, where at least 100 illegal gold miners have died ...