A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

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

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

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

But that tactic has been fiercely criticized by civic groups and the community, and the South African government is under scrutiny for the way it has dealt with the issue at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.

Four police officers who were arrested on Friday in connection with the escape of alleged underground illegal mining kingpin and ringleader, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine ...

The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped for months and say they believe they have rescued all the survivors and ...