Police have arrested suspected illegal mining kingpins who allegedly tortured, assaulted, starved and killed zama zamas at ...

“This tragedy is eerily reminiscent of the Marikana massacre, where 34 miners were killed by live ammunition in a ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

The DA is calling for the inquiry to investigate key issues, including the role of government agencies, the involvement of ...

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

A technical team driving an operation to shutdown an illicit mining network sent high-tech equipment down shaft 11 earlier on ...

A police operation in Stilfontein will continue, despite initial reports that there are "no longer any illegal miners ...

One of the volunteers who went into the Stilfontein mine shaft has painted a grim picture of the conditions underground.

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

The Stilfontein Crisis Committee said even though all surviving miners have been rescued, the shaft is littered with body ...

STILFONTEIN - Two bodies of illegal miners recovered underground at the Stilfontein mine shaft have been identified. Police ...