The miner, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals, said he surfaced on ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

The South African Police Service confirmed the deaths of at least 78 people on Wednesday following the end of a rescue operation at an abandoned mine where miners, cut off from food and water, had ...

Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show nobody was left underground, after 78 bodies and more than 200 miners were ...

Pan African Resources Plc extracts the precious metal from waste dumps, known as tailings, left behind by decades of mining when South Africa was the world’s biggest gold producer. It’s also ...

TWO Chinese miners, South Mining’s Mutargech division (SMMd) and Zimbabwe Zhongjing Heli Energy Pvt Ltd (ZJHL), have allegedly drilled 11 boreholes and laid a pipeline to divert water from ...

Government says a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information items daily ...