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 ...

North West police have confirmed the death of yet another suspected illegal miner at Margaret Shaft in Stilfontein.

The solution to the problem of informal economies is not policing. Nor is it regulation. The solution must begin with massive regional economic repair.

In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

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

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

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 ...

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

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

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...