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

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) The Acting Provincial ...

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

An operation to rescue illegal gold miners who are stranded in deep underground shafts in South Africa’s North West province got under way on Monday, ending a months-long standoff over their fate.

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

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday ... for illegal mining at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West Province. Among ...

South African Police End Mine Rescue Operation With at Least 78 Dead and 246 Survivors STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on ...

North West province acting police ... An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe ...

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 ...

North West province acting police commissioner Maj ... Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused or abandoned mines where official operations have ended.