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

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 ...

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

However, a scan on Monday revealed the extent of the injury and a Cricket South Africa statement confirmed Nortje is not ...

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

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

South African officials have arrested more than 100 miners who had been trapped in an illegal gold mine and will detain ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...