In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
The mineral resources department said “the decision to deploy rescue services was made independently” and not mandated by a court. South Africa harbors up to 100,000 artisanal miners ...
He has said illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and a separate ruling last week ordered the state to launch the rescue. None of the rescued survivors were ...
South Africa's department of mineral resources told the BBC the rescue operation on Monday involved lowering a cage into the mine that is designed to hold six or seven people. It said the cage ...
Rescue operations were underway at a gold mine in South Africa’s North West province where hundreds of illegal miners have been underground for months. More than 50 bodies were brought to ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...