Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

South Africa increased coal exports from the biggest terminal on the continent for the first time in seven years after an ...

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

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police ... meet scour the country's thousands of abandoned mines for mineral deposits, often employed by ...

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

Illegal mining is often in the news in South Africa and a major problem for authorities as large groups go into mines that ...

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

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

Experts and the South African government estimate the number of abandoned mines in South Africa at around 6,000. Makhosonke ...

Late last year, a specialized mine rescue camera was lowered into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...