A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

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

But that tactic has been fiercely criticized by civic groups and the community, and the South African government is under scrutiny for the way it has dealt with the issue at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

Gen. Patrick Asaneng said that it was an embarrassment to the police operation. Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine ...

South African authorities have argued that the miners were able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, one of the deepest in the mineral-rich country. But activists said that would ...

The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped for months and say they believe they have rescued all the survivors and ...