Ian Cameron discusses SA’s Crime Intelligence scandals, police corruption, oversight challenges, and strategies to combat ...

Stilfontein: The end of ubuntu? At the start of hearings concerning the Life Esidimeni tragedy, 144 crosses appeared outside a Johannesburg nursery. The nursery's owner expressed to a local newspaper ...

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

Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining ringleader James ... Tiger’s alleged fellow henchman told City Press arrangements for his release may have already started before he even reached the ...

Police records indicate that he was not booked into any police stations where other illegal miners were detained, nor was he hospitalised. The SAPS says investigations into Tshoeali 's escape ...

notes with sadness the gravity of the human tragedy that occurred at Stilfontein in the North West Province of South Africa over the last few weeks. The death of at least seventy-eight miners ...

He is believed to have been one of the key figures behind the illegal underground mining operations there. His escape is widely suspected to have been orchestrated as part of an inside job. Police ...

The North West department of health says all illegal miners who are hospitalised at the Hospital are in a stable condition and are also heavily guarded. Earlier this week, IOL reported that North ...

Rescuers use a Metalliferous Mobile Rescue Winder during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein on January 14, 2025. Picture: Christian Velcich ...

South Africa’s engineering prowess has been hailed for the role it played in the rescue of 246 individuals from the Stilfontein mine tragedy. 78 people lost their lives tragically at the ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein ... like a subterranean city down there, with shops ...

The man died on Thursday in a hospital to which 33 miners were admitted after a three-day operation that ended on January 16 to clear the abandoned mine at Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg.