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

According to officials, South Africa lost more than $3 billion in gold to the illicit trade last year. Police forces launched ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...