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

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

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

Authorities are under scrutiny after the escape of alleged illegal mining kingpin James Neo Tshoaeli, with investigations ...

North West MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management in the North West, Wessels Morweng has expressed anger and ...

The 1925 discovery of diamonds on the Atlantic Coastal margin of Namaqualand (South Africa) between the Olifants and Orange .

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

A South African bishop called for the government to formalise the activities of small-scale mining operations after scores of ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining regions, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for any remaining deposits.

A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at an abandoned ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...