Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and ...

Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...

In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

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

The government launched a rescue operation following a court-order mission that is focused on retrieving those trapped, ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

Rescued Stilfontein illegal miner, now out on R500 bail, gives harrowing details of what he witnessed underground, saying many miners succumb to the unrelenting hunger – not illness. Rescue mission at ...

An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the lives of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West ...