The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

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

By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie PeytonSTILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

Police operation to stamp out illegal mining by blocking food supplies has turned to tragedy as relatives wait for loved ones ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

South Africa’s Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, the latest in a long line of ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

South African officials have arrested more than 100 miners who had been trapped in an illegal gold mine and will detain ...

Toyota's South African Henk Lategan regained the overall lead in the Dakar Rally on Wednesday with a two minutes and 27 ...