The township of Fateng Tse Ntsho houses some 7,000 Black South Africans, its huddle of corrugated metal roofs surrounded on ...

A 26-year-old woman living near Stilfontein, who gave her name as Matumelo, said her husband had gone down the mine in June when ... executive order aimed at South Africa, White House official ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa -South African ... A 26-year-old woman living near Stilfontein, who gave her name as Matumelo, said her husband had gone down the mine in June when she was pregnant.

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining regions, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for any remaining deposits. The illegal miners are frequently ...

Stilfontein, South Africa - January 14 ... 106 illegal miners were arrested for illegal mining at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West Province. Among those arrested ...

Police officers and private security workers stand by a mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Nov. 15 ... some possibly as young as 13 years old – emerging from the mine shafts in a ...

Rescued miners are seen as they are processed by police after being rescued at the mine shaft where rescue operations are ongoing as attempts are made to rescue illegal miners who have been ...

South Africa Pulls 36 Corpses ... A 26-year-old woman living near Stilfontein, who gave her name as Matumelo, said her husband had gone down the mine in June when she was pregnant.

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about a centenary of diamond prospecting and mining along the West Coast of South Africa and the legends ... attempts to ...

KHUMA, South Africa — For months, the miners and their families pleaded for help. By the time it came, the mine had become a ... The 28-year-old, a father of two and the family breadwinner ...