In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

Police maintain 24-hour surveillance over closed mining site as Stilfontein community grapples ... Rita was able to sponsor two soccer teams and a pool team for young people.

Residents and businesses in Klerksdorp say service delivery failures are forcing businesses to close down and are hurting residents’ quality of life.

Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...

Stilfontein: The end of ubuntu? At the start of hearings concerning the Life Esidimeni tragedy, 144 crosses appeared outside a Johannesburg nursery. The nursery's owner expressed to a local newspaper ...

notes with sadness the gravity of the human tragedy that occurred at Stilfontein in the North West Province of South Africa over the last few weeks. The death of at least seventy-eight miners ...

Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining ringleader James “Tiger” Neo Tshoaeli’s escape from police custody was likely facilitated before he even reached the surface. Police have been searching ...

The crisis at a disused gold mine in Stilfontein, North West, which has dragged on for months, has tested the ability of the government to curb illegal mining through Operation Vala Umgodi.

The man died on Thursday in a hospital to which 33 miners were admitted after a three-day operation that ended on January 16 to clear the abandoned mine at Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg.

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

Rescuers use a Metalliferous Mobile Rescue Winder during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein on January 14, 2025. Picture: Christian Velcich ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with wo ...