Four National Intervention Unit (NIU) officers, part of Operation Vala Umgodi at Stilfontein, appeared in court for aiding an ...

THE South African Police Service (SAPS) is struggling to identify 79 of the 88 bodies of illegal miners retrieved from the Stilfontein mine shaft last month.As a result, the SAPS, and the Lesotho ...

Illegal mining is not just the domain of zama zamas but extends to politically shielded elites who have looted billions from ...

South Africa's mining industry faces a crisis, with over 6,000 abandoned mines posing safety risks and economic challenges ...

North West police have dismissed reports that illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Tsoaeli, who escaped from custody in ...

Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein town, fearful to come out of hiding and face arrest by security ...

The highly specialised equipment of emergency preparedness and response organisation Mines Rescue Services South Africa ...

Spread This NewsSowetan Live Only three of the 93 illegal miners who died at Stilfontein have been claimed by their families ...

A truck carrying mine rescue workers drives out as they leave after rescueing trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa ...

The case against four police officers linked to the escape of an alleged illegal mining ringleader in Stilfontein has been ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87 ...