Families of illegal miners plan to sue the government for accountability following the tragic deaths of zama zamas in a North ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

The illegal miner said the idea of eating human flesh started as a joke among those trapped underground. But as time marched ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) has slammed government over its handling of the Stilfontein tragedy, ...

In South Africa, a government crackdown on an illegal gold mine led to a state siege, causing 78 deaths. Volunteers ...

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the lives of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West ...