The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

At least 100 illegal miners have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped underground for months in ...

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

A critical rescue operation at South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is underway, attempting to save illegal miners trapped ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...