Over 4,500 illegal miners are trapped underground in an inactive gold mine in Stilfontein, located in South Africa's North West Province, which borders Botswana. Rescue operations have been halted due ...

South African police confirm the partly decomposed body of one miner had been brought to the surface from inside the Stilfontein mine in the country's North West province Thursday morning.

A total of 69 illegal miners, including undocumented foreign nationals, have recently been arrested in Limpopo as the South African ... mining sites across the province. In the month of March ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as ...

With almost half a million workers, many of them migrants from neighbouring countries or South Africa’s impoverished Eastern Cape province, mining companies and the health services they provide ...

Rescuers use a mobile rescue winder during a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, North West Province, South Africa, on Jan. 13, 2025. [Xinhua] A total of 246 survivors and ...

June 8 at 9:11 a.m. Correspondent Rachel Chason and photographer Ilan Godfrey logged more than 1,200 miles driving across South Africa, from remote mining towns in the Kalahari Desert to ...