Police in the North West have arrested five illegal miners who resurfaced at Margaret Shaft in Stilfontein. Two of the ...

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

The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...

An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food supplies for a period of time to the miners working illegally in the mine's ...

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 ...

The man died on Thursday in a hospital to which 33 miners were admitted after a three-day operation that ended on January 16 ...

The bodies of 78 Zama Zama's were pulled from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to ...

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

One of the illegal miners who were rescued from the disused mines at Stilfontein has died in hospital, the North West ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...