Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an ...

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

Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its role in the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in ...

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 ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

A total of 66 illegal miners were rescued on Tuesday from shaft 11 in Stilfontein, North West, South Africa, during ongoing ...

Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

The Coalbrook North Colliery disaster of January 21, 1960, remains one of the most catastrophic events in South African ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused ... hosts a new show covering the latest in high school sports on Long Island. Credit: Newsday/Robert Cassidy ...