Distressing content warningClement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa.That's ...

South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of a standoff in November when police tried to force the miners out by ...

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

The operation to rescue illegal miners trapped for weeks underground in the northeastern South African town of Stilfontein, ...

The mine near the town of Stilfontein has been the scene of a tense standoff between police, miners and the public ...

Rescued Stilfontein illegal miner, now out on R500 bail, gives harrowing details of what he witnessed underground, saying many miners succumb to the unrelenting hunger – not illness. Rescue mission at ...

STILFONTEIN - Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) has approached the Constitutional Court in its fight for illegal miners occupying an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein to be ...

Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, has become a focal point in the battle against illegal mining. As part of Operation Vala Umgodi (“Close the Hole”), authorities have sealed numerous ...

STILFONTEIN, North West - More illegal miners are surfacing from old abandoned Stilfontein mine shafts.

Government says a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas, have voluntarily emerged from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein, indicating that these individuals have the capability to exit the ...

An aerial view of one of the three shafts used by illegal miners in Stilfontein. Picture: Saps A letter sent from under the Stilfontein earth highlights the dire situation facing illegal miners.