The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

Distressing content warningClement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa.That's ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

The Zimbabwe Consul General in Johannesburg Eria Phiri, visited Stilfontein in the North West province following the retrieval of illegal miners during a South African Police Service (SAPS ...

Rescuers cross the caution tape near a Metalliferous Mobile Rescue Winder during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on 13 January 2025.

Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe confirmed that two volunteers assisting in the operation had confirmed that there are no longer any illegal miners underground.

The entrance shaft of an abandoned mine is seen in Stilfontein on January 14, 2025. More than two dozen illegal miners have been rescued and at least 15 bodies recovered from an abandoned gold ...

Police are investigating claims of kidnapping and torture made against the alleged kingpins of the illicit mining operation at the abandoned Stilfontein mine in the North West. Masechaba Sefularo ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least ...

Police have arrested suspected illegal mining ringleaders in Stilfontein in the North West. It is alleged that they tortured, assaulted, starved and killed zama zamas underground. Zama zamas ...

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has delivered a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging him to set up a commission of Inquiry into the ongoing disaster at the Buffelsfontein Mine at Stilfontein ...