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

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

At least 78 miners were confirmed dead, police said, and 246 survivors had been rescued. The victims were suspected to have ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

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

The 6-year-old mare owned by Team Valor was on the first plane of exports from South Africa when the ban was lifted ...

South African police are searching for a Lesotho gang leader, known as 'Tiger', who escaped during a police operation at an ...

South African police are searching for 'Tiger,' a gang leader involved in an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were found.