The Stilfontein Crisis Committee says even though all surviving illegal miners have rescued, the shaft is littered with body ...

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

The spat between police and labour union, the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (Giwusa), over allegations ...

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

Acting Police Commissioner Patrick Asaneng expresses outrage over the escape of alleged illegal mining kingpin James Neo ...

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

Police have launched a manhunt for the alleged kingpin known as ‘Tiger’ in the Stilfontein gold mine debacle. The alleged ...

Thousands of shafts were abandoned. In November, police stepped up efforts at the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, surrounding the entrance to the shaft and refusing to let food and water go down.

The South African Police Service revealed that only 26 out of the over 2000 illegal miners that resurfaced from Stilfontein ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...

South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...