Police blocked supplies of food and water to mine Trade unions: state allowed miners 'to starve to death' Government calls ...

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

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A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police try to ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from ...

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

At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies for months in what trade unions described as a "horrific" state crackdown on ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...