The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is demanding the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

Over 100 miners from South Africa died from extreme hunger. According to a report by Frontline Pilipinas, the miners were ...

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...

A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.

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

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

JOHANNESBURG -- A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at ...