Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...