It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

The NPA said the group was found guilty of several crimes including violations of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 ...

South African officials have arrested more than 100 miners who had been trapped in an illegal gold mine and will detain ...

Residents in Atlantis are still reeling in shock after a bloody start to their Sunday when a double murder took place in ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft is just one of 6 000 that have been abandoned by South Africa's gold extraction companies.

The latest tragedy has seen at least 78 bodies and over 200 survivors brought to the surface from a mine in Stilfontein.

Standing near the rim of a nearly 2-mile deep shaft, Zinzi Tom waited for word of her brother as the authorities began a long ...