The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

How can one rationalise punishing miners in such a manner—miners who, in many cases, are themselves economic refugees from ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought emaciated survivors to the surface Tuesday with hundreds more ...

Sixty bodies have been removed from a disused gold shaft in South Africa, months into a campaign to try to clear out illegal ...

Sixty bodies have been removed from a disused gold shaft in South Africa, months into a campaign to try to clear out illegal miners, police said Wednesday.

In South Africa, authorities have retrieved at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine following a siege aimed at ...

South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more than 2 km (1.2 miles) ...

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 ...

An aerial view of one of the three shafts used by illegal miners in Stilfontein. Picture: Saps A letter sent from under the Stilfontein earth highlights the dire situation facing illegal miners.