South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out ... South African authorities began their operation at ...
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 rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...
The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining crisis ...
South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...