JOHANNESBURG — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa where ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...

The South African government, desperate to deal with powerful illegal mining networks, found itself in a crisis that lasted six months at the disused Stilfontein mine in the country’s North West ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has expressed regret over the deaths of illegal miners at Stilfontein in North West, where dozens of bodies of the artisanal miners have now been extracted. A ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Rescuers use a mobile rescue winder during a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in ...