South African authorities have recovered at least 60 bodies from an abandoned gold mine more than two kilometres underground ...

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

Rescuers have spent Tuesday pulling body bags and survivors from a South African mine where scores of illegal miners are ...

This brought the death toll to 60 as nine bodies were recovered on the first day of rescue operations on Monday at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West Province. On the same day ...

The number of illegal miners who’ve died in a months-long standoff with the South African authorities increased to 51, the ...

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

Hundreds more people could be underground following a monthslong effort to force them out of the mine.Months after efforts ...

"On day two of operations, a total of 106 alive illegal miners were retrieved and arrested for illegal mining. Fifty-one were ...

Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe added that since the beginning of operations in Stilfontein (December 2024), authorities ...

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