In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

Regularised artisanal mining could also boost the security industry through protection services guarding these mines. It ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...

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

Discover how South Africa's innovative Mobile Mines Rescue Winder played a pivotal role in rescuing 246 miners from the ...

As the cage reached a depth of 1,280 meters, Charles and Mkwayi were confronted with scenes that may haunt them forever.

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

(AP video/Alfonso Nqunjana) Forensic service workers carry bodies in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, ...

A deadly shoot-out erupted between metro police and a group of illegal miners in Germiston during a crackdown on illicit ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.