They also force the miners to pay for their food and water underground. Last December, South Africa’s police and military jointly launched the operation “Close the Hole” or “Vala Umgodi ...

Why Did 87 Miners Die Trapped Underground in South Africa as Police Tried to Force Their Surrender? CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry ...

Many say they have no choice but to go underground and work in illegal mines to make a living. South Africa's abandoned gold mines are often targeted by illegal miners looking for gold and other ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that lives should not be put at risk amid the standoff between police and miners stuck underground. “The police will carry out their ...

"One of them came out with a wound on his head and explained that somebody tried to strangle him underground for a scoop of porridge," he says. South Africa experienced a gold rush in the 1880s ...

At least 60 bodies and 92 survivors had been pulled from one of South Africa’s deepest mines since Monday in a red cagelike device lowered thousands of feet underground, police said. Police are ...

Footage Shows Trapped Miners, Dead Bodies Underground After South Africa Raid By Sfundo Parakozov JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -At least 400 illegal miners remained trapped underground in South Africa ...

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed up in underground shafts to the surface so they can be arrested. The police sealed off access to the ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the site on Friday ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft and ...

“Everyone is profiting from it except the poor guys who find themselves starved underground.” Zama-zamas have been a problem in South Africa for years, but recently the government promised to ...