South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...
(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Mmastona Mbizana, left, a community member of Khumo township, speaks to The Associated Press while her son, Lucky Mbizana, watches in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday ...
A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba ...
JOHANNESBURG — 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 ...
Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused ... hunger and illnesses after police arrived at the Stilfontein mine last August and cut off supplies for a time.