A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...
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 ...
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's president ... so the miners would come out on their own and be arrested. The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police ...
Mining, once the backbone of South Africa’s economy, has steadily declined since ... Clement became a zama zama (“those who try”) at the abandoned shafts of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near his home.