STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa -South African ... A 26-year-old woman living near Stilfontein, who gave her name as Matumelo, said her husband had gone down the mine in June when she was pregnant.

KHUMA, South Africa — For months, the miners and their families pleaded for help. By the time it came, the mine had become a ... The 28-year-old, a father of two and the family breadwinner ...

Zinzi Tom, whose 26-year-old ... South Africa is at over 45 percent. Stilfontein is a microcosm of the post-apartheid ...

Police officers and private security workers stand by a mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Nov. 15 ... some possibly as young as 13 years old – emerging from the mine shafts in a ...

South Africa Pulls 36 Corpses ... A 26-year-old woman living near Stilfontein, who gave her name as Matumelo, said her husband had gone down the mine in June when she was pregnant.

More than two dozen illegal miners have been rescued and at least 15 bodies recovered from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ... to secure and rehabilitate old mines, making space for ...

The miners’ ordeal has highlighted the desperation many face in Africa ... A 40-year-old South African zama zama told Bloomberg that he’d been in shaft 11 at the mine since July, before ...

I will keep that helmet forever and hang it in my house and when I am old I will show it to my grandchildren and I will tell them the story of what happened here at this mine," said Mkwayi.

Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and ...

The slaver needed to prove these Africans entered legally on ships and over land from Africa into the heart of a South American ... to mines called Zaragoza. Deciphering this old Spanish text ...

South Africa’s private sector a world-leading ferroalloy producer until the public sector performed so badly on the energy front that China took over that leadership using South African-mined raw ...