A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...
At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...
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: ...
deep mineshaft in South Africa, where hundreds of illegal miners were reported to be trapped, starving, dehydrated and ...
CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.