Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, points out the technology capabilities of the mobile rescue winder that was used ...

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

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

Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were ...

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

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

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 ...

Police have called an end to a rescue operation that was launched in South Africa to rescue about 300 illegal miners known as ...

A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.