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

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

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

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 ...

The Acting Provincial Commissioner of North West, Major General Patrick Asaneng has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised ...

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 ...

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

Police maintain 24-hour surveillance over closed mining site as Stilfontein community grapples ... they were part of our town," she says. Now, with the Zama Zamas gone, Rita fears for the future.

With the sheer numbers of illegal miners turning up dead, a small town like Klerksdorp doesn't appear to have capacity to accommodate the rising death toll.

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...