In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

Now at least 78 miners have died in Stilfontein after enduring horrific conditions as ... long before colonialism took control of the land and set up a system of private property and invented and ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a bill enabling the state to expropriate land without ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

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 ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 survivors were rescued and ...

The Middelburg High Court has delivered a scathing judgment against mining company Asantee Holdings (Pty) Ltd, dismissing its opposition ...

Mkwayi, a former convict, known locally as Shasha, lives in the township of Khuma that was close to the disused mine in Stilfontein. The 36-year-old, who had served seven years in prison for ...

Johannesburg, South Africa — The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been abandoned by South Africa’s gold ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food supplies to the miners working illegally in the mine's tunnels. The tactic ...

SINGAPORE - Some 19,600 Build-To-Order (BTO) flats will be launched in 2025, as part of continued efforts by the authorities to address shocks to the housing market caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is pursuing legal options to hold the government accountable for the deaths The African Transformation Movement said Stilfontein was a man-made ...