Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
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 ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
Authorities were harshly criticized for their approach, but South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said: "You have got people who voluntarily entered mines and did some illegal ...
A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.