Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally in the mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, since August last year.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped deep underground for ...

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

The South African Police Service arrested three security guards suspected of being behind a string of hijackings in Tshwane ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies for months in what trade unions described as a "horrific" state crackdown on ...

The South African government faced growing criticism on Wednesday over the deaths of at least 60 unlicenced miners who were ...

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 ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...