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 ...

JOHANNESBURG - As an intense search for an alleged illegal mining ringleader continues in Stilfontein, some activists have accused police of using low-ranking officers as scapegoats. In January, James ...

Math teacher Mushagalusa Habamungu is one of hundreds in Democratic Republic of Congo's Bukavu to join the fight against the ...

Police are still on the hunt for James Neo Tshoaeli, the Stilfontein illegal miner infamously known as Tiger A henchman ... with police confirming that they believed his escape was an inside job. The ...

So he came to this [Stilfontein] side,” the illegal miner said. Tiger was immediately promoted to ringleader in the mines because of his brutal reputation. Among his reported cruelties was ...

A cage set to retrieve hundreds of illegal miners from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has been assembled. Picture: Nokukhanya Mntambo/EWN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - A second miner has ...

Mines Rescue Services (MRS), under the leadership of Mannas Fourie, recently saved 246 illegal miners (zama-zamas) who were trapped in an abandoned mineshaft in Stilfontein ... for any miners or ...

One of the illegal miners who were rescued from the disused mines at Stilfontein has died in hospital ... Spokesperson Tshegofatso Mothibedi said the miner was admitted at Klerksdorp/Tshepong ...

Read: Bodies and emaciated zama zamas being recovered from Stilfontein mine This week, the government provided a crane to rescuers, in line with a court settlement with a miner’s family ...

"It's because when I spoke to the miners, they told me some of them had to eat other [people] inside the mine because ... was close to the disused mine in Stilfontein. The 36-year-old, who had ...

"It's because when I spoke to the miners, they told me some of them had to eat other [people] inside the mine because there was ... the township of Khuma that was close to the disused mine in ...