Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department ...
The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...
Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...
In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Union president Mametlwe Sebei said that miners — possibly dead, injured or too weak to reach Shaft 11 — were still trapped in Shaft 10 when the alleged explosion occurred.
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.
STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like ... sitting having a midmorning drink at a tavern in the nearby dusty township of Khuma, is one of them. Illegal miners rescued from an abandoned ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead ... Samuel Sehebeng, 47, sitting having a midmorning drink at a tavern in the nearby dusty township of Khuma, is one of them. Illegal miners ...