In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...

Distressing content warningClement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa.That's ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police operation cut off food and basic supplies to thousands who were illegally digging ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

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An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the lives of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West.

South Africa was once the world’s top gold producer ... But in the sleepy town of Stilfontein, 160km west of Johannesburg, the impasse spotlights the difficulties ahead. Since last month ...

South Africa is fighting an underground war against gangs and criminals who control its abandoned mines. For weeks now, several illegal miners have been trapped inside a gold mine in the country's ...

Government says a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas, have voluntarily emerged from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein ... by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and ...