Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in Pretoria on Wednesday. They called for ...

Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department ...

Police have called on members of the public who suspect their loved ones were working on abandoned mines in the Khuma, ...

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an ...

KHUMA, South Africa — For months ... many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police had waged a deadly ...

As the cage reached a depth of 1 280 meters, Mandla Charles and Mzwandile Mkwayi were confronted with scenes that may haunt them forever.

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

The state has been accused of deliberately allowing the deaths of the miners who perished in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, ...

Lerato Moloi, a resident of Khuma township in Stilfontein, told Daily Maverick on Tuesday that while she understands why the government has continuously stressed that many of the illegal miners ...

On Monday, as the formal rescue operation commenced to retrieve miners from an abandoned mineshaft in Stilfontein ... both from Khuma, a nearby township, and part of the community leadership ...