A 23-year-old woman together with her accomplice have been arrested in Soweto, Johannesburg after she allegedly staged her ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.

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

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing ...

Athlenda Mathe, national spokesperson for the South African police, defended the operation. "Our mandate was to combat criminality and that is exactly what we've been doing," Mathe said at the ...

A suspected gang leader named 'Tiger' escaped police custody in South Africa, sparking controversy over the handling of ...

Investigators face “a mammoth task” in identifying the dead as some of the bodies were already decomposing, and in some cases ...

Only two of the 78 recovered bodies have been identified so far because many of the illegal miners were undocumented and some ...

After nine bodies were recovered on Monday, 27 more were brought out from deep underground on Tuesday, police Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said in a statement. Police began laying siege to the mine ...

Seventy-eight corpses, along with more than 240 illegal miners, have been hoisted to the surface since Monday as part of a rescue operation, Brig Athlenda Mathe told journalists close to the top of ...