The North West Health Department was on Wednesday unable to give timelines for the start of preparations for the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

North West Health MEC Sello Lehari will provide an update today, on the completion of autopsies of deceased illegal miners ...

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An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe Authorities have evidence of his involvement from ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since last August.

The identification process for nearly 80 suspected illegal miners from the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine is far from over.

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 ...

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

MEC Sello Lehari provided an update during a media briefing in Rustenburg on Wednesday (5/2). “We have retrieved 78 bodies ...

Police allege that aid provided to the miners has indirectly supported continued illegal mining operations.78 corpses and 246 ...