South Africa's rand gained on Friday, lifted by stronger precious metal prices and the local central bank's hawkish tone at a ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

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

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

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

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

Libya holds the largest foreign exchange and gold reserves in Africa, according to Global Firepower, followed by Algeria and ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

South African authorities have launched a manhunt for James Neo Tshoaeli, a gangster known by the nickname "Tiger," as well as an investigation to find out who in the South African police force ...

Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday ...