A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Standing near the rim of a nearly 2-mile deep shaft, Zinzi Tom waited for word of her brother as the authorities began a long ...
Residents desperately waiting for news of family members gathered at the mine, some holding placards criticizing authorities ...
Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and others too weak to come out on their ...