Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
According to officials, South Africa lost more than $3 billion in gold to the illicit trade last year. Police forces launched ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police ... of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, but Zinzi Tom's brother wasn't among ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
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 ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.