People leaving New Zealand hit record levels in the year to November 2024, in another sign of the weakness in the country’s ...

By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African police are hunting a gang leader from Lesotho believed to have ...

South African police have launched a manhunt for a Lesotho gang member believed to have controlled operations at an illegal ...

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

Analysis - In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

Johannesburg, South Africa — The derelict Stilfontein shaft ... conditions are from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Some are from gangs in Lesotho. While artisanal miners are common across Africa, ...

Gang Leader 'Tiger' Evades South African Police After 78 Mine Deaths By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters ... in abandoned industrial mines in South Africa. The operations are thought to ...

JOHANNESBURG - South African police have launched a manhunt for a Lesotho gang member believed to have ... in abandoned industrial mines in South Africa in search of leftover gold.

Many mines in South Africa have been abandoned over the last three decades by companies that did not find them economically viable. The mines have been taken over by gangs, often former employees ...