Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa's president is facing ... also determine whether police “are prepared to use vengeance and punishment as acceptable ways of fighting illegal mining," the ...

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

Thousands of illegal miners, known as "zama zamas" ("those who try their luck" in Zulu), operate in mineral-rich South Africa. The mine in Stilfontein - some 145km (90 miles) south-west of ...

Illegal miners said they had to eat cockroaches after police cut off their food supply. Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off ...

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 ...

Since Monday, rescuers have used a cylindrical metal cage to pull up 78 bodies and 248 survivors, some of them emaciated and disorientated, in a court-ordered operation at the mine near the town ...

South Africa police search for gold mine gangster 'Tiger' 01/20/2025 January 20, 2025 A gang leader suspected of running illegal gold mining operations in South Africa has escaped police custody.

Police have called an end to a rescue operation that was launched in South Africa to rescue about 300 illegal miners known as ZamaZamas trapped more than two kilometres underground. Police ...

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 ...