South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
The operation to rescue illegal miners trapped for weeks underground in the northeastern South African town of Stilfontein, ...
South African rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors to the surface of a goldmine on Tuesday (Wednesday ...
South African officials will arrest hundreds of miners trapped in an abandoned illegal gold mine, the country’s mining minister said, despite a judge’s warning that the ordeal risks turning into “the ...
Rescuers have sent a cagelike device into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds of ...
The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...
Thirty-six bodies have been lifted from an abandoned South African gold mine over two days, police say. There are fears dozens of people are still underground despite a months-long effort to force ...