Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) ...
South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned mines. The South African government has taken a hard-line approach to the groups, who are known as zama zamas — which means “hustlers” in the ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die ...