Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

The Coalbrook North Colliery disaster of January 21, 1960, remains one of the most catastrophic events in South African ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

South Africa was once the world's largest gold producer, but large-scale industrial mining became unprofitable and many mines ...

But contrary to an accusation commonly bandied about in South Africa, illegal mining is not exclusively the domaine of foreigners. Thornton said there existed a “sort of independent gold ...

JOHANNESBURG — A suspected illegal gold ... mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South ...

I am an anthropologist and I've been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three decades. I've also made a film with and about informal miners. The problems ...

I am an anthropologist and I’ve been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three decades. I’ve also made a film with and about informal miners.

They blink like moles in the harsh South African sunlight. Some look painfully young. Operations to rescue hundreds of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, a small mining town ...