Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Police have called an end to a rescue operation that was launched in South Africa to rescue about 300 illegal miners known as ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
CEO of Mine Rescue Services South Africa, the private company contracted to rescue the miners. At least 87 miners died in the monthslong standoff between police and the miners who were trapped ...
A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South ...
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 ...
Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, watches on as new trainees perform a rescue task, during an interview in Carletonville, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe ...
inspects the mobile rescue winder that was used to rescue miners, during an interview in Carletonville, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) It was the beginning of ...