According to officials, South Africa lost more than $3 billion in gold to the illicit trade last year. Police forces launched ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.

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

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

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

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...

A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...