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

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

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was ...

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

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

South Africa is on the cusp of reviving its ferroalloys industry, but its progress depends on several reforms, including affordable electricity and fixing the country's logistics bottlenecks. Speaking ...

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

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die ...

An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe Authorities have evidence of his involvement ...