By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie PeytonSTILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...
South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...
South Africa's rand was little changed on Thursday, a day after a key U.S. inflation report boosted hopes of a less ...
Police operation to stamp out illegal mining by blocking food supplies has turned to tragedy as relatives wait for loved ones ...
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...