But while anger is high in the local community, the tragedy has not stoked a strong reaction across South Africa, where illegal mining is often in the news. The practice is common at mines that ...

emaciated miners All 82 pulled out alive to face criminal prosecution Government labels illegal mining 'war on economy' STILFONTEIN, South Africa, Jan 14 (Reuters) - South African rescuers have ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining regions, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for any remaining deposits. The illegal miners are frequently ...

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about the centenary of diamond prospecting and mining along the West Coast of South Africa and the legends that shaped the ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

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 ...

South Africa Pulls 36 Corpses ... A 26-year-old woman living near Stilfontein, who gave her name as Matumelo, said her husband had gone down the mine in June when she was pregnant.