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

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in ...

Clearing huge tracts of land to plant one crop like maize has degraded land and put healthy food out of the reach of ordinary ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Inconsistent government and corporate climate strategies may see poorer regions left behind in the transition away from ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

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

The South African rand jumped on Monday as markets waited for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's policy announcements for ...

South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned mines. The South African government has taken a hard-line approach ...