CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die ...

The mining sector in South Africa has for some time been constrained by policy uncertainty, strained labour relations, and a ...

At least 60 bodies and 92 survivors had been pulled from one of South Africa’s deepest mines since Monday in a red cagelike device lowered thousands of feet underground, police said. Police are ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams have said. At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have ...

More than 100 people have died after being trapped for months beneath an abandoned mine in South Africa. The men had ... on it depicting dozens of bodies underground wrapped in plastic.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months ... in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought emaciated survivors to the surface Tuesday with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors to the surface ...

Rescuers Bring Out Survivors and Dead From a South African Mine as Hundreds Remain Deep Underground STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers sent a cage-like structure down into one of South ...