Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an ...

Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and the deaths could have been averted had the rescue ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

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

Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its ...

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

A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, watches on as new trainees perform a rescue task, during an interview in Carletonville, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe ...

CEO of Mine Rescue Services South Africa, the private company contracted to rescue the miners. At least 87 miners died in the monthslong standoff between police and the miners who were trapped ...