South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
in South Africa’s North West province, where police had waged a deadly standoff with illegal miners. The small town, once a thriving hub for gold mining, had been in decline since the early 2000s.
South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
Authorities now hope to bring all of the miners out, they said. Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...