Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...
In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
As the cage reached a depth of 1,280 meters, Charles and Mkwayi were confronted with scenes that may haunt them forever.
Distressing content warningClement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa.That's ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...
When the men who had been holed up more than two kilometres underground for months in a disused mine in Stilfontein North ...
civil society groups and labour unions have denounced the Stilfontein crackdown, with GIWASU condemning what it called "the ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.