Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

At least 78 miners were confirmed dead, police said, and 246 survivors had been rescued. The victims were suspected to have ...

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

South African police are searching for 'Tiger,' a gang leader involved in an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were found.

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