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

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 ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

A gang leader suspected of running illegal gold mining operations in South Africa has escaped police custody. An ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

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

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines. It comes after more than 100 are ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...