After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...

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

Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...

“The absence of parliamentary oversight, condemnation, or intervention in response to this atrocity raises serious concerns ...

Two closely related right-wing organisations here in South Africa, AfriForum and Solidarity ... 2012 and miners have now been ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the ... Now at least 78 miners have died in Stilfontein after enduring horrific conditions as a result of the police barricading them into a mine ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: massive regional economic repair.

The organisations called on the portfolio committee to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions.

The committee has been called on to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions and convene an urgent public ...

North West Acting Police Commissioner, Patrick Asaneng has promised to soon unmask those behind the scourge of illegal mining in South Africa. Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining kingpin James ...