The state has been accused of deliberately allowing the deaths of the miners who perished in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, ...

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

One of the illegal miners who were rescued from the disused mines at Stilfontein has died in hospital, the North West provincial Department of Health announced. Spokesperson Tshegofatso Mothibedi ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food supplies to the miners working illegally in the mine's tunnels. The tactic ...

Police have arrested suspected illegal mining ringleaders in Stilfontein in the North West. It is alleged that they tortured, assaulted, starved and killed zama zamas underground. Zama zamas ...

A months-long standoff between South African authorities and illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in the town of Stilfontein ended this week with at least 78 people killed – likely from ...

Seventy-eight dead bodies have been brought to the surface of the abandoned gold mine at Stilfontein in South Africa, after being blockaded by the African National Congress government for months.

The siege, which began in August at the mine in the town of Stilfontein, about 150km from Johannesburg, cut off food and water supplies for months in an attempt to force the miners to the surface ...

Muridile says the identification of most of the bodies which have been retrieved is a challenge as these illegal miners are undocumented but also some bodies are decomposed.

South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some of those accused of mining underground ...

Police said on Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies from the abandoned mine near Stilfontein, southwest of ...