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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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