By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

Al Jazeera’s Hatu Mutasa reports from Stilfontein as rescue workers bring miners to the surface after being trapped in an ...

Sixty bodies have been removed from a disused gold shaft in South Africa, months into a campaign to try to clear out illegal miners, police said Wednesday.

The South African government faces criticism over the deaths of at least 60 unlicenced miners trapped during a police siege ...

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

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

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

In South Africa, authorities have retrieved at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine following a siege aimed at ...