The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and the deaths could have been averted had the rescue ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...
Over 78 miners have died, and more than 160 have been rescued from an abandoned South African gold mine amid a standoff with authorities. The government's controversial 'smoke them out' tactic, which ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...