Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

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

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

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

In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

South African police are searching for 'Tiger,' a gang leader involved in an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were found.

A suspected gang leader named 'Tiger' escaped police custody in South Africa, sparking controversy over the handling of ...

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

is just one of 6,000 that have been abandoned by South Africa’s gold extraction companies. The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stilfontein mine is located, was the focus of a heady gold ...

Illegal miners said they had to eat cockroaches after police cut off their food supply. Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off ...