A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

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

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

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 ...

South Africa's rand was little changed on Thursday, a day after a key U.S. inflation report boosted hopes of a less ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

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

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

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 ...

Poor governance and incompetence plague South Africa’s public administration, particularly at the local level.