Police have called on members of the public who suspect their loved ones were working on abandoned mines in the Khuma, ...

Only 18 families have come forward to assist in the identification of the 75 badly decomposed bodies of illegal miners in ...

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Human Rights Commission has instituted an inquiry into illegal mining. This after the commission received a complaint over the Stilfontein illegal mining operations.

The state has been accused of deliberately allowing the deaths of the miners who perished in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, ...

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

JOHANNESBURG - As an intense search for an alleged illegal mining ringleader continues in Stilfontein, some activists have ...

The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...

Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department ...

South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some of those accused of mining underground ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...