The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

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

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

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

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

Thousands of illegal miners, known as "zama zamas" ("those who try their luck" in Zulu), operate in mineral-rich South Africa ...

fail to respect South Africa’s constitutional guarantees to which all are entitled. The surviving miners need prompt, adequate medical care, and the government should establish a commission of ...

Other times, informal miners have targeted functional mines. Operations like these have existed for decades and cost South Africa $1bn yearly in lost revenue. They are carried out almost entirely ...

Late last year, a specialized mine rescue camera was lowered into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported to be trapped and starving CARLETONVILLE, South ...

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 ...