South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...
South African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...
(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Mmastona Mbizana, left, a community member of Khumo township, speaks to The Associated Press while her son, Lucky Mbizana, watches in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday ...