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

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to “smoke them out.” ...

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 ...

The entrance to an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, on Thursday in Stilfontein ... The description, from a miner and from cellphone videos sent to the surface ...