In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a probe into the embezzlement of over $300 million from state miner Gecamines ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

We need to know who was buying the gold, the methods used to transport it and who was complicit in facilitating these.

The South African Police Service defended itself against claims that it arrested a volunteer, released information about ...

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports.

Of the 932 arrests, Zimbabwean nationals made up the largest group with 325 arrests, followed by South African citizens with ...