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

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...

Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a probe into the embezzlement of over $300 million from state miner Gecamines ...

The South African Police Service defended itself against claims that it arrested a volunteer, released information about ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...