Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their access to food and water.
At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...
Authorities were harshly criticized for their approach, but South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said: "You have got people who voluntarily entered mines and did some illegal ...