Residents and businesses in Klerksdorp say service delivery failures are forcing businesses to close down and are hurting residents’ quality of life.
Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining ringleader James ... Tiger’s alleged fellow henchman told City Press arrangements for his release may have already started before he even reached the ...
The Mobile Mines Rescue Winder on the scene of the Stilfontein mine rescue mission. Photos: Supplied The Stilfontein mine tragedy, where at least 78 people lost their lives, underscores the ...
The crisis at a disused gold mine in Stilfontein, North West ... Hoitsimolimo Mutlokwa is a post doctoral researcher at the Centre for Labour Law in the University of the Free State’s Faculty ...
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 ...
Now at least 78 miners have died in Stilfontein after enduring horrific conditions as a result of the police barricading them into a mine shaft. The police blocked the exit of the mine leaving ...
Rita de Sonsa wipes the sweat from her brow as she stands behind the counter of her once-bustling liquor store in Stilfontein. The rhythmic hum of customers that once filled the air has been ...
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.
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 ...
An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...