South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped ...
South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out ... South African authorities began their operation at ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...