North West acting provincial police commission Patrick Asaneng says it has been difficult to identify some of the decomposed ...

JOHANNESBURG - Four police officers suspected of assisting the escape of James Neo Tshwaeli a mining kingpin have been ...

Four police officers have been arrested on charges of aiding the escape of Stilfontein kingpin Neo James Tiger Tshwaeli, ...

Four police officers were arrested and appeared in court in connection with the escape of James Neo Tshoaeli, the Lesotho ...

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, ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

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

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...

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