STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...

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

The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of a standoff in November when police tried to force the miners out by ...

Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

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

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

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Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...

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