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

In South Africa, a government crackdown on an illegal gold mine led to a state siege, causing 78 deaths. Volunteers ...

On Thursday, cameras were lowered 1,000 metres of the 2.6km deep shaft to scan for signs of life. No movement was seen on ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

The South African Police Service revealed that only 26 out of the over 2000 illegal miners that resurfaced from Stilfontein ...

The DA has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa to request a commission of inquiry into the "ongoing disaster" at ...

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

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

The DA is calling for the inquiry to investigate key issues, including the role of government agencies, the involvement of ...

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

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

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