South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners had been underground working illegally at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...

Three Chinese citizens have been sentenced to seven years in prison for the illegal exploitation of minerals in the eastern ...

The authorities are carrying out the final phase of an operation that began in October to force an unknown number of people ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police try to ...

Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...

A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.

Human rights lawyer Richard Spoor argues that government indecision and police actions led to the tragic deaths of 78 zama zamas in Stilfontein.