A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

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

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 ...

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.

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

is just one of 6,000 that have been abandoned by South Africa’s gold extraction companies. The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stilfontein mine is located, was the focus of a heady gold ...