Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

The South African Police Service defended itself against claims that it arrested a volunteer, released information about ...

Over a hundred of the 246 illegal miners retrieved from a mine in Stilfontein, in the North West appeared before the ...

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

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police operation cut off food and basic supplies to thousands who were illegally digging ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

Moeletsi was retrieved from Shaft 11 by the dedicated actions of the Stilfontein Community Rescue Team on December 9 and released on bail by the Stilfontein Magistrate’s Court on December 31.

Rescued Stilfontein illegal miner, now out on R500 bail, gives harrowing details of what he witnessed underground, saying many miners succumb to the unrelenting hunger – not illness. Rescue mission at ...

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STILFONTEIN - Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) has approached the Constitutional Court in its fight for illegal miners occupying an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein to be ...