The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
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 ...
The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...
Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...
No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...
At least 100 illegal miners have died and more than 400 remain trapped underground after a months-long standoff with police, ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...