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

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

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

The South African Police Service is investigating members who were on duty the day that an illegal mining kingpin escaped ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

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

South African police are searching for a Lesotho gang leader, known as 'Tiger', who escaped during a police operation at an ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

Some look painfully young. Operations to rescue hundreds of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, a small ...