CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP ... that there are about 6,000 abandoned mines and that close to $1 billion is lost annually in revenue due to illicit mining. A community-led rescue effort ...

The rise of illegal mining in the country has raised human rights concerns and questions about who ultimately benefits.

Some will be arrested for illegal mining. Some will die. BBC Africa Eye meets the migrants who risk everything to go deep underground in South Africa’s dangerous disused gold mines to make a living.

June 8 at 9:11 a.m. Correspondent Rachel Chason and photographer Ilan Godfrey logged more than 1,200 miles driving across South Africa, from remote mining towns in the Kalahari Desert to ...

Often nicknamed ghost towns ... the richest town in Africa, boasting electric power, an ice factory, a hospital and impressive stone houses. But in 1928 diamonds were discovered south of the ...