Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has hit back at accusations that the government is to blame for the ...

In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...

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

The man died on Thursday in a hospital to which 33 miners were admitted after a three-day operation that ended on January 16 ...

During a three-day national rescue operation, 246 suspected illegal miners were medically assessed by healthcare ...

Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...

Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its role in the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in ...

Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining ringleader James “Tiger” Neo Tshoaeli’s escape from police custody was likely facilitated ...

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 ...