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

The authorities are carrying out the final phase of an operation that began in October to force an unknown number of people ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic ...

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

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

A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.

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

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