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 ...
The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...
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.
When the men who had been holed up more than two kilometres underground for months in a disused mine in Stilfontein North ...
Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
Distressing content warningClement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa.That's ...
(250116) -- JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 16, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Rescue vehicles are seen at the rescue operation site of an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, North West Province, South Africa, on Jan. 16, 2025.
More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...
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