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

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

Regularised artisanal mining could also boost the security industry through protection services guarding these mines. It ...

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

As South Africa battles with the reality of the Stilfontein disaster - where at least 78 illegal gold miners have died and more than 240 Zama Zamas - large-scale gold mining companies and Bench ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a ...

These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...

KHUMA, South Africa — For months, the miners and their families pleaded for help. By the time it came, the mine had become a tomb. Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors ...

On Friday, January 10, the Gauteng High Court ordered the rescue of miners who had been trapped for over three months in shafts 10 and 11 of the former Buffelsfontein Gold Mine at Stilfontein.

JOHANNESBURG - Some of the ringleaders of an illicit gold mining network in Stilfontein have appeared in court for the first time on Friday. They were among those arrested this week during a ...