South Africa's Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, center, visits an abandoned gold mine where miners are rescued from below ground ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine have died after being trapped deep underground for months while ...

South Africa's department of mineral resources told the BBC the rescue operation on Monday involved lowering a cage into the mine that is designed to hold six or seven people. It said the cage has ...

South Africa's Gold Fields, the world's No. 4 gold producer, restarted operations at Africa's biggest mine on Thursday after it was forced to shut it down for a day when two workers died, the ...