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

Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Volunteers from the community who are familiar with the mine have been in the cage as it is dropped deep underground.

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...