Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of ...
South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused or abandoned mines where official operations have ended. Large groups of miners often go underground for months to ...