South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

Johannesburg — At least 78 illegal miners have died in the Stilfontein gold mine in South Africa after the police blocked the entrance to the mine in August 2024 to force them to leave the site ...

South Africa’s engineering prowess has been hailed for the role it played in the rescue of 246 individuals from the Stilfontein mine tragedy. 78 people lost their lives tragically at the ...

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Mmastona Mbizana, left, a community member of Khumo township, speaks to The Associated Press while her son, Lucky Mbizana, watches in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday ...