Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine south west of Johannesburg, police ...
The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...
Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine southwest ... Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused or abandoned ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
A study conducted by Bench Marks Foundation, a religious non-profit organisation that monitors companies in South Africa and ...
JOHANNESBURG — A suspected illegal gold ... mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South ...