The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

Four police officers who were arrested on Friday in connection with the escape of alleged underground illegal mining kingpin and ringleader, ...

Police in the North West have arrested five illegal miners who resurfaced at Margaret Shaft in Stilfontein. Two of the ...

The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...

Police in the North West have called for relatives of the 78 bodies that were recovered at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine’s shaft no. 11 during the Mine Res ...

Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says the outcome of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, if it ...