Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

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

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

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

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

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...