Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
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 ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an ...
The Coalbrook North Colliery disaster of January 21, 1960, remains one of the most catastrophic events in South African ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
South African police are pursuing James Neo Tshoaeli, an alleged "kingpin" of illicit mining, following the rescue of over ...
A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South ...
Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...
South African police have concluded a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in North West province, recovering 78 bodies ...