Distressing content warningClement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa.That's ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

As the cage reached a depth of 1,280 meters, Charles and Mkwayi were confronted with scenes that may haunt them forever.

South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

As the cage reached a depth of 1,280 meters, Charles and Mkwayi were confronted with scenes that may haunt them forever. Hundreds of emaciated miners, some near death, lay together with dozens of dead ...

As day two of the 10-to-16-day operation to rescue illegal miners trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein gold mine just outside Stilfontein came to a close on Tuesday evening, 14 January, the ...

By Nellie Peyton and Xolani Nhlapo STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on ...

Lerato Moloi, a resident of Khuma township in Stilfontein, told Daily Maverick on Tuesday that while she understands why the government has continuously stressed that many of the illegal miners ...

Blinded by the bright summer sun, haggard survivors staggered across ochre soil mixed with rubble near Stilfontein ... for the residents of the Khuma township, told AFP. He said that many of ...

Blinded by the bright summer sun, haggard survivors staggered across ochre soil mixed with rubble near Stilfontein. Their ...

A total of 152 illegal miners have been retrieved from underground Shaft 11 of the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, North West ...