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 police operation in Stilfontein will continue, despite initial reports that there are "no longer any illegal miners ...

A technical team driving an operation to shutdown an illicit mining network sent high-tech equipment down shaft 11 earlier on ...

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 ...

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

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

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...