Detained after being accused of controlling the illegal operations at an abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein in South Africa ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

The 260 miners who were trapped underground at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were all safely brought to the ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...

“The Stilfontein mine is a crime scene where ... that “the rights of all people are respected.” Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people ...

The High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, said in an interim ruling that all miners underground in the mine in Stilfontein should be allowed to leave and no one should block their exit ...

At least 51 bodies and 106 survivors have been pulled from the Stilfontein mine ... has drawn criticism from community groups and South Africa’s Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), who in ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...

KHUMA, South Africa — For months, the miners and their families pleaded for help. By the time it came, the mine had become a ...