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 ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

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

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

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A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...