Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

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

KABUL, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

A South African Police Services (Saps) vehicle is parked near the mine shaft in Stilfontein on 17 November 2024. Picture: Phill Magakoe / AFP Authorities have claimed that no illegal miners remain ...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is pursuing legal options to hold the government accountable for the deaths The African Transformation Movement said Stilfontein was a man-made ...

The DA in Parliament has written a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging him to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the Stilfontein mine tragedy. Nearly 80 illegal miners have died at the ...

Rescuers cross the caution tape near a Metalliferous Mobile Rescue Winder during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on 13 January 2025.

Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe confirmed that two volunteers assisting in the operation had confirmed that there are no longer any illegal miners underground.

Police are investigating claims of kidnapping and torture made against the alleged kingpins of the illicit mining operation at the abandoned Stilfontein mine in the North West. Masechaba Sefularo ...