The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says the deaths of the Stilfontein illegal miners are reminiscent of the ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

Sixty bodies have been removed from a disused gold shaft in South Africa, months into a campaign to try to clear out illegal ...

A planned visit to the Stilfontein mining site by the Acting National Commissioner Lieutenant General Tebello Mosikili was postponed earlier this week “due to heavy rains in the North West”.

An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the lives of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West ...

MACUA's urgent request was dismissed by the Gauteng High Court earlier in December. With food and water running low, MACUA says the miners are facing a grave situation.

Recent developments have seen a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas, voluntarily emerging from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein. This trend indicates that these individuals have the ...