Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...
Regularised artisanal mining could also boost the security industry through protection services guarding these mines. It ...
Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...
An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...
The North West Department of Health has confirmed the death of one of the men who was rescued from the Stilfontein mine and ...
An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since ...
The arrival of zama zamas from Stilfontein has intensified turf wars and conflict with local authorities in Gauteng's illegal ...