Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...
The prevalence of illegal mining was brought into sharp focus by the prolonged removal of zama zamas from the unused ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has delivered an official letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging him to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the ongoing disaster at the Buffelsfontein Mine in ...