Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein ...
Police have confiscated mining equipment used in illegal operations at an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein, North West.
President Ramaphosa clarified that illegal mining is a criminal offence that threatens economic stability, community safety, ...
The miners in Stilfontein, in the country’s North West province, have been entering the mine, which is no longer in operation, searching for gold deposits. Such illegal mining has long been ...
South African police confirm the partly decomposed body of one miner had been brought to the surface from inside the Stilfontein mine in the country's North West province Thursday morning.
Government initially closed a shaft to deprive undocumented miners it called ‘criminal’ of food, water and medicine.
The High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, said in an interim ruling that all miners underground in the mine in Stilfontein should be allowed to leave and no one should block their exit ...