Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...
South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...
South Africa's mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous year, official statistics showed on Thursday.
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...