Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...
South Africa increased coal exports from the biggest terminal on the continent for the first time in seven years after an ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Illegal mining is often in the news in South Africa and a major problem for authorities as large groups go into mines that ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
Late last year, a specialized mine rescue camera was lowered into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South ...
People leaving New Zealand hit record levels in the year to November 2024, in another sign of the weakness in the country’s ...
Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...