South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out ... South African authorities began their operation at ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...
The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining crisis ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...
South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...