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 ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an ...
His claims echo similar accounts slowly emerging from a mining disaster which has shocked but also divided South Africa. While he and his colleague insist they did not take part, they were forced ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...
The Coalbrook North Colliery disaster of January 21, 1960, remains one of the most catastrophic events in South African ...
A specialised camera became a crucial lifeline for miners trapped deep within a South African mineshaft last year. At nearly ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.