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

The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining crisis ...

STORY: South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine near the town of ...

Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners in Stilfontein, resulting in close to 80 ...

Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

Police said 78 bodies were retrieved in a court-ordered rescue operation, with 246 survivors also pulled out from deep ...

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

Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.

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.

In South Africa, a government crackdown on an illegal gold mine led to a state siege, causing 78 deaths. Volunteers ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an ...

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