Rescue efforts for illegal miners trapped in a Johannesburg mine shaft were suspended due to safety risks. Officials halted ...

Illegal mining is common in many parts of South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas – from an isiZulu ...

Joburg EMS initiated rescue efforts, but were forced to halt at a depth of 15 meters due to low oxygen levels.

Press Release - The process to identify 93 bodies of suspected illegal miners retrieved from Buffelsfontein Gold Mine' shaft No. 11 between Tuesday, 03 December 2024 and Wednesday 15 January 2025, is ...

Rescue teams were able to descend 70 meters ... Last month, at least 78 bodies were pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa after police cut off food and water supplies for months in ...

Johannesburg EMS and other search and rescuers called off a search at a Gauteng mine on Sunday, where alleged illegal miners ...

South Africa’s engineering prowess has been hailed for the role it played in the rescue of 246 individuals from the Stilfontein mine tragedy. 78 people lost their lives tragically at the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to survive, then left to starve.

mine equipment and steel-fabrication industries depend on. ArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd., or AMSA, on Thursday delayed the closures by a month and said it expects to make a final announcement ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the police in August began blocking food and water from entering the ...

Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...