South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

South Africa's High Court has mandated the immediate rescue of trapped miners at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, highlighting ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

One hundred and eighteen illegal miners have been extracted from the Stilfontein mine in South Africa on Monday and Tuesday ...

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Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, stretches for 87,000km² ...

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has 830 shareholders, with a small group owning 10,000 shares each. This was revealed ...

Rescue teams sprung into action following reports that the father, mother and teenage daughter on holiday from Brits were ...

A Gauteng family was rescued after being swept out to see at Sandstrand, Jongensfontein in the Western Cape. National Sea ...