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

We didn’t send them there," Ntshavheni said. Illegal mining remains common in South Africa's old gold-mining areas, with miners going into closed shafts to dig for any possible remaining deposits.

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

South Africa Pulls 36 Corpses ... A 26-year-old woman living near Stilfontein, who gave her name as Matumelo, said her husband had gone down the mine in June when she was pregnant.

left behind by decades of mining when South Africa was the world’s biggest gold producer. It’s also operating century-old underground shafts around Barberton, the site of the country’s first ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll ... 106 illegal miners were arrested for illegal mining at the old Buffelsfontein ...

Many mines in South Africa have been abandoned over the last three decades by companies that did not find them economically viable. The mines have been taken over by gangs, often former employees ...