A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

South Africa's rand strengthened in cautious trade on Friday, as investor focus shifted towards U.S. President-elect Donald ...

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

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

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

South Africa’s Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, the latest in a long line of ...

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

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