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

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

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

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

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

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 ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

South Africa is on the cusp of reviving its ferroalloys industry, but its progress depends on several reforms, including affordable electricity and fixing the country's logistics bottlenecks. Speaking ...

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

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 ...