Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

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 ... miners — called "zama zamas" in the ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since ...

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A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

Police in South Africa said Monday they had launched a manhunt for the alleged "kingpin" behind an illegal mining operation where scores of bodies have been recovered after he escaped from custody.

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...