Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in Pretoria on Wednesday. They called for ...

They denounced the arrests of artisanal miners operating in abandoned mines, saying it did nothing to alleviate South ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

The Sunday Mail Amb Hamadziripi Tanyaradzwa Rusike AT LEAST 20 Zimbabwean nationals lost their lives after being trapped in ...

The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...

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

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

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

South African police have launched a manhunt for a Lesotho gang member believed to have controlled operations at an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were recovered last week during a police siege, ...