Standing near the rim of a nearly 2-mile deep shaft, Zinzi Tom waited for word of her brother as the authorities began a long ...

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine in ...

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 ...

Government has implemented Operation Vala Umgodi, a police strategy to deal with illegal mining by closing the access to the mines and forcing the illegal miners out. Some of the illegal miners in ...