South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

deep mineshaft in South Africa, where hundreds of illegal miners were reported to be trapped, starving, dehydrated and ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

Existing economic reforms now in motion have the potential to lift South Africa’s economic growth rate to 3.5% a year by 2029 ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.