Human rights lawyer Richard Spoor argues that government indecision and police actions led to the tragic deaths of 78 zama ...

North West police are on the hunt for an alleged Stilfontein mining kingpin, Lesotho national, James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger. Asaneng said Tiger was identified by police after some of ...

These were the chilling words of Clement Moeletsi, a rescued illegal miner, as he described the inhumane conditions faced by those trapped underground in Stilfontein's disused mineshafts.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa. — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

The criticism by community leaders in Stilfontein and human rights activists follows a protracted operation at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to clamp down on illegal mining. Police process illegal ...

Police said that the suspect — identified as Lesotho national James Neo Tshoaeli but commonly known as “Tiger" — was among those who came out of the mine near the town of Stilfontein during ...

With growing concerns about the rise of illegal mining in the area, Stilfontein is now believed to be the epicentre of the country’s black market for illicit gold. Mineral Resources Minister ...

Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State's representatives neither know nor care that the Buffelsfontein mine was built on ...