JOHANNESBURG - As an intense search for an alleged illegal mining ringleader continues in Stilfontein, some activists have ...

The state has been accused of deliberately allowing the deaths of the miners who perished in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, ...

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

The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root causes of the crisis. Instead, it exacerbates their suffering, reducing them ...

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...

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

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

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

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