South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

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

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

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

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