A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...

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

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

Authorities now hope to bring all of the miners out, they said. Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from a mining shaft this week, and more are believed to remain underground.

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...

The authorities moved in after a monthslong standoff that drew criticism from human rights groups but praise from some South Africans, who view illegal ... mining industry shrank in South Africa ...

Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

The illegal miners have been trapped inside the closed mine for several months. The coal miners were located inside a mine in the North West province of South Africa. The miners trapped in the ...