The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

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

SAPS faces mounting pressure as controversy erupts over plans to dismantle its internal watchdog, the National Police ...

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

No illegal miners remain underground after four days of a rescue operation at the abandoned Stilfontein <a target=_blank ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Calls for accountability arise as the proposed closure of the police inspectorate analysis centre raises concerns about the ...

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

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

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

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