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

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

The goal of “Zero Harm” remains elusive in South Africa’s deep and dangerous mines, but progress is being made.  In 2024, 42 miners were killed on the job in South Africa — a record low for a calendar ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

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 ...

South Africa was once the world's largest gold producer, but large-scale industrial mining became unprofitable and many mines ...

In a statement, the South African Federation of Trade Unions asserted, “These miners, many of them undocumented and desperate workers ... Africa identifies the range of negative social and economic ...

South Africa’s violent criminal organizations reportedly control some of these mining operations, profiting from the exploitation of illegal miners who work under dangerous conditions. These groups ...

The death toll of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa rose to 78 on Wednesday, according to a workers union. The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

Forensic service workers carry bodies in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday, Jan. 15 ...