Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in Pretoria on Wednesday. They called for ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid ... Now at least 78 miners have died in Stilfontein after enduring horrific conditions as a result of the police barricading them ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...

So far, in the Stilfontein case, officials said most are from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, with a few from South Africa. Zama zamas have a bad reputation in the country and are often viewed ...

Alleged illegal mining kingpin James Neo Tshwaeli , also known as ‘Tiger’, was extracted from Shaft 11 earlier in January but ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut ... the bodies from the abandoned mine near Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg.

The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its role in the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...