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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe confirmed that two volunteers assisting in the operation had confirmed that there are no longer any illegal miners underground.

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

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

An operation to extract illegal miners in Stilfontein which began on Monday has led to the extraction of 324 people by ...

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