The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

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

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

The miners were emaciated from lack of food, which was hard to come by since police cracked down on their illegal mining and ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

A sweeping Interpol-led operation targeting illegal mining in West Africa has led to the arrest of 200 people and the seizure ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

In South Africa, nearly 2,000 illegal miners faced starvation and dire conditions in abandoned mines after a police crackdown. Many miners died due to lack of food and supplies. This illegal mining ...

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

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...