Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

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

Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...

While South Africa is still reeling from the deadly police siege at the Stilfontein mine, one illegal miner spoke to Reuters about the dire conditions underground, saying the authorities' "intention ...

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 ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

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

(photo: SACBC / Courtesy ) Silas Isenjia/CNA/ACI Africa World January 7, 2025 The hundreds of illegal miners stuck in a disused mine in Stilfontein in South Africa’s North West Province are ...

This aerial view shows an open mine shaft where illegal miners get access to the mine in Stilfontein on November 17, 2024. Hundreds of miners at the disused shaft have been struggling to survive ...

“From Monday, 30 December 2024, until today, 12 illegal miners have been placed under arrest for illegal mining, trespassing, and contravention of the Immigration Act in Stilfontein,” the SAPS said in ...

STILFONTEIN - Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) has approached the Constitutional Court in its fight for illegal miners occupying an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein to be ...

Zama Zamas emerge Recent developments have seen several illegal miners, known as zama zamas, voluntarily emerging from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein. The South African government has noted ...