Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an ...
Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and the deaths could have been averted had the rescue ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.
An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...
The South African Police Service confirmed the deaths of at least 78 people on Wednesday following the end of a rescue ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
Over 78 miners have died, and more than 160 have been rescued from an abandoned South African gold mine amid a standoff with authorities. The government's controversial 'smoke them out' tactic, which ...