Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...
South African police say there's nobody left in ... when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally. At first, Tom says ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...
The police said that the operation will continue for several days, as it involves the use of a metal cage to recover men and ...
South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned mines, and authorities said more than 1,500 people had been arrested for illegal mining in the Stilfontein area since last August.