South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

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

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

The upcoming African Mining Week Summit, scheduled for October 1 - 3 in Cape Town, will highlight profitable opportunities ...

deep mineshaft in South Africa, where hundreds of illegal miners were reported to be trapped, starving, dehydrated and ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.