South African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...

Stilfontein: The end of ubuntu? At the start of hearings concerning the Life Esidimeni tragedy, 144 crosses appeared outside a Johannesburg nursery. The nursery's owner expressed to a local newspaper ...

notes with sadness the gravity of the human tragedy that occurred at Stilfontein in the North West Province of South Africa over the last few weeks. The death of at least seventy-eight miners ...

South Africa’s engineering prowess has been hailed for the role it played in the rescue of 246 individuals from the Stilfontein mine tragedy. 78 people lost their lives tragically at the ...

The North West department of health says all illegal miners who are hospitalised at the Hospital are in a stable condition and are also heavily guarded. Earlier this week, IOL reported that North ...

He is believed to have been one of the key figures behind the illegal underground mining operations there. His escape is widely suspected to have been orchestrated as part of an inside job. Police ...

Rescuers use a Metalliferous Mobile Rescue Winder during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein on January 14, 2025. Picture: Christian Velcich ...

The man died on Thursday in a hospital to which 33 miners were admitted after a three-day operation that ended on January 16 to clear the abandoned mine at Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg.

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 rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with wo ...