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 ...

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

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

Illegal mining is often in the news in South Africa and a major problem for authorities as large groups go into mines that ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

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

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Standing near the rim of a nearly 2-mile deep shaft, Zinzi Tom waited for word of her brother as the authorities began a long ...

South African police are searching for 'Tiger,' a gang leader involved in an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were found.

Many mines in South Africa have been abandoned over the last three decades by companies that did not find them economically viable. The mines have been taken over by gangs, often former employees ...