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 ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
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 ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their access to food and water.
Authorities were harshly criticized for their approach, but South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said: "You have got people who voluntarily entered mines and did some illegal ...
Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, watches on as new trainees perform a rescue task, during an interview in Carletonville, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe ...