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 ...

Completed in 2024 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Images by Sebastian van Damme. Studioninedots designs C14 as a contemporary, ...

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

All but 26 of the illegal miners retrieved from Stilfontein were foreign nationals. Images: Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu via Getty Images and /AFP via Getty Images Source: Getty Images STILFONTEIN—The ...

The Zimbabwe Consul General in Johannesburg Eria Phiri, visited Stilfontein in the North West province following the retrieval of illegal miners during a South African Police Service (SAPS ...

Rescuers cross the caution tape near a Metalliferous Mobile Rescue Winder during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on 13 January 2025.

Workers from Mines Rescue Services operate the mechanical cage that was used for rescue operations at the mine shaft in Stilfontein ...

Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe confirmed that two volunteers assisting in the operation had confirmed that there are no longer any illegal miners underground.

STILFONTEIN - Operation at the Stilfontein mine in North West are to continue until police are satisfied. Police spokeswoman Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed this on Wednesday as officials ...

The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is demanding the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry to investigate what it describes as the Stilfontein massacre in the ...