Police in the North West have called for relatives of the 78 bodies that were recovered at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine’s shaft no. 11 during the Mine Res ...

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

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

Discover how South Africa's innovative Mobile Mines Rescue Winder played a pivotal role in rescuing 246 miners from the ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

Police in South Africa said Monday they had launched a manhunt for the alleged "kingpin" behind an illegal mining operation where scores of bodies have been recovered after he escaped from custody.

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

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

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

Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the death toll climbed ... after residents voiced fears that more than 100 people may have died in the mine in Stilfontein, ...