A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

African Mining Week (AMW) 2025, taking place in Cape Town from October 1-3, will center on the theme, From Extraction to ...

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

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

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

South Africa’s mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous ...

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

Health and safety solutions provider KBC has introduced South Africa's first safety escape room at Phalaborwa Mining Company ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...