A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has hit back at accusations that the government is to blame for the ...

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

Acting provincial police commissioner Major General Patrick Asaneng is furious and frustrated that suspected illegal mining ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

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

Police in South Africa said Monday they had launched a manhunt for the alleged "kingpin" behind an illegal mining operation where scores of bodies have been recovered after he escaped from custody.

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

People leaving New Zealand hit record levels in the year to November 2024, in another sign of the weakness in the country’s ...