fail to respect South Africa’s constitutional guarantees to which all are entitled. The surviving miners need prompt, adequate medical care, and the government should establish a commission of ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — 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 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold ...

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 ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, police said Thursday.