The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Discover how South Africa's innovative Mobile Mines Rescue Winder played a pivotal role in rescuing 246 miners from the ...

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

An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold pit in South Africa has died in hospital, health officials said, raising the toll from the site to 88 since August.

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

A tragedy has played out in a South Africa after 87 miners were left to die underground as authorities attempted to force ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle ...