Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...
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 ...
Hundreds more people could be underground following a monthslong effort to force them out of the mine.Months after efforts began to remove people working in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.