The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food supplies for a period of time to the miners working illegally in the mine's ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police ...

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

The death of up to 100 miners at Stilfontein reflects a callous and couldn't-care-less attitude that has developed in the government, and sadly throughout much of society (white and black). It is that ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine south west of Johannesburg, police ...

The South African Police Service denied claims that the Stilfontein illegal miners are receiving inadequate healthcare after ...

He is one of nearly 2,000 illegal miners who have surfaced from the mine near the town of Stilfontein since August last year when police targeted it as part of an operation that aims to tackle the ...