Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped ...
Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...
They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...
The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...