Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and ...

Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...

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

While South Africa is still reeling from the deadly police siege at the Stilfontein mine, one illegal miner spoke to Reuters ...

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 ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the lives of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West ...

Government says a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas, have voluntarily emerged from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein, indicating that these individuals have the capability to exit the ...