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

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

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

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

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

With Burger, Williams and Nortje also injured, SA may need to dig deep into their reserves to fill a fast-bowling position ...

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

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...

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

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 ...