Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
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.
A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...