In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa where dozens of miners ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from a mining shaft this week, and more are believed to remain underground.

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

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

Authorities now hope to bring all of the miners out, they said. Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable ...

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 search-and-rescue ...

Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

Illegal mining is waging war on the South African economy, with the illicit trade costing the economy at least R60 billion in ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...