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

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

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

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

The North West Health Department was on Wednesday unable to give timelines for the start of preparations for the ...

Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department ...

Seventy-five unidentified bodies of illegal miners are being held in various government mortuaries in the North West.

The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

The identification process for nearly 80 suspected illegal miners from the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine is far from over.

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has described illegal mining in South Africa as a war being waged ...

At least 20 Zimbabwean nationals have been confirmed dead after being trapped in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South ...

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.