Police are throwing "maximum resources" into a manhunt for Lesotho man, James Neo Tshoaeli, known as Tiger, who is believed ...

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

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

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

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle ...

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

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.

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since ...