Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
At least 78 miners were confirmed dead, police said, and 246 survivors had been rescued. The victims were suspected to have ...
Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Newly sworn-in U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will declare illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border a ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
South African authorities are searching for James Neo Tshoaeli, nicknamed 'Tiger,' a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader ...