Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...
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 ...
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South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.
Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
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 ...