Police in the North West have called for relatives of the 78 bodies that were recovered at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine’s shaft no. 11 during the Mine Res ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The South African Police Service is investigating members who were on duty the day that an illegal mining kingpin escaped ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold pit in South Africa has died in hospital, health officials said, raising the toll from the site to 88 since August.
SOUTH African opposition leader has called for foreign nationals involved in illegal mining to be sentenced to death. This ...
A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...