Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and the deaths could have been averted had the rescue ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...
They declared the court-ordered rescue operation over on Wednesday ... (Themba Hadebe/The Associated Press) Illegal mining is a common practice in South Africa, where more than 30 per cent ...
Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and the deaths could have been averted had the rescue operation taken place sooner. "The minister said they were going to smoke ...