The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...
Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...
South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...
Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...
South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of a standoff in November when police tried to force the miners out by ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...