In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...

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

Police have called an end to a rescue operation that was launched in South Africa to rescue about 300 illegal miners known as ZamaZamas trapped more than two kilometres underground. Police launched an ...

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

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...