The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

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

Acting provincial police commissioner Major General Patrick Asaneng is furious and frustrated that suspected illegal mining ...

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation ... he said on TV station Newzroom Afrika. The mine is 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) deep ...

North West Department of Health confirms that all illegal miners hospitalised in Stilfontein are stable but under heavy guard ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

South African authorities revealed Monday that a prominent figure allegedly responsible for illegal gold mining and linked to ...

South African authorities have launched on January 20 a manhunt for James Neo Tshoaeli, a notorious gangster known as “Tiger, ...

The Lesotho national resurfaced from the deep mine shaft in Stilfontein while officers had it surrounded, and was supposed to ...

SOUTH African opposition leader has called for foreign nationals involved in illegal mining to be sentenced to death. This ...

South African authorities have launched a manhunt for James Neo Tshoaeli, a gangster known by the nickname "Tiger," as well as an investigation to find out who in the South African police force helped ...

North West Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Patrick Asaneng, has ordered the deployment of maximum resources to ...