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 ...

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

Rescuers work to retrieve miners from ground in an abandoned gold mine for months, in Stilfontein, South Africa on Tuesday. Activists said the only way out is for miners to make a dangerous trek to ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ... out because the shaft is too steep.

Thousands of illegal miners, many of them hailing from other nations, are said to operate in abandoned mine shafts across mineral-rich South Africa. Rescuers and South African Police Service officers ...

South African authorities lifted the bodies of 60 people from an abandoned ... illegal mine but said it is likely in the hundreds. Miners, many from neighboring countries, entered the shaft ...

Thirty-six bodies have been lifted out of an abandoned ... mining, trespassing and contravention of the immigration act charges,” Mathe said. Illegal miners had taken over the mine shaft that ...

An operation is underway to rescue hundreds of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa. This started off as a standoff between South African police and illegal miners.

The government estimates that there are about 6,000 abandoned mines and that close to $1 billion is lost annually in revenue due to illicit mining. What's happening now? A community-led rescue ...