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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

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

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...

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

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.

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says the deaths of the Stilfontein illegal miners are reminiscent of the ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...