A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...
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.
The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
An all-formats team reported from the scene of a South Africa mine disaster where hundreds of men working illegally ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds ... in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week.