Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

An all-formats team reported from the scene of a South Africa mine disaster where hundreds of men working illegally ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

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

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

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

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

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

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...

South Africa’s mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous ...