Families of illegal miners plan to sue the government for accountability following the tragic deaths of zama zamas in a North ...

The miner, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals, said he surfaced on ...

One man was told that he was going to be eaten as a joke, and it ended up happening...We did not think it would ever get to the extent where would eat dead bodies or corpses.' ...

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

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

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

AT least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have been pulled out of the Buffelsfontein near Stilfontein in South Africa’s ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at an abandoned ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...