The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

Political parties in South Africa are demanding a commission of inquiry into the deaths of miners at the Stilfontein mines, ...

The miner, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals, said he surfaced on ...

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

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

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 ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

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

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

These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...

An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the lives of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West ...

Government says a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas, have voluntarily emerged from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein, indicating that these individuals have the capability to exit the ...