The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

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

Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and the deaths could have been averted had the rescue ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on ...

They declared the court-ordered rescue operation over on Wednesday ... (Themba Hadebe/The Associated Press) Illegal mining is a common practice in South Africa, where more than 30 per cent ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...

A court ruling last week forced the government to launch a formal rescue operation. The tragedy comes amid gold-rich South Africa's battle against illegal mining, which costs the country over $1 ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Over 78 miners have died, and more than 160 have been rescued from an abandoned South African gold mine amid a standoff with ...

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

CEO of Mine Rescue Services South Africa, the private company contracted to rescue the miners. At least 87 miners died in the monthslong standoff between police and the miners who were trapped ...

Illegal mining cost South Africa over US$3 billion (S$4.1 billion ... and the deaths could have been averted had the rescue operation taken place sooner. “The minister said they were going ...