The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

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 ...

So far, five families have come forward to identify illegal miners who died in Stilfontein's abandoned mine shafts.

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

As the zama-zamas – Zulu for chance-takers ... at least according to reportage on the Stilfontein drama. Illegal operations at disused gold mines are a pervasive issue in South Africa ...

The Sunday Mail Amb Hamadziripi Tanyaradzwa Rusike AT LEAST 20 Zimbabwean nationals lost their lives after being trapped in ...

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has hit back at accusations that the government is to blame for the ...

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

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

Kunene’s controversial remarks are amid the Stilfontein zama-zama saga that led to the retrieval of about 2000 illegal miners who were reportedly trapped underground. Despite the EFF’s ...

The recent Stilfontein mine rescue operation in the ... Despite ongoing police operations, zama zamas (illegal miners) continue to target disused and abandoned mines across the country in a ...