More than 250 illegal miners have been retrieved since the start of phase three this week, with 78 dead bodies being recovered.

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

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 ...

Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...

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

More than 1,500 illegal miners have been arrested at Stilfontein since August, when authorities first started to remove them ...