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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

STILFONTEIN - Operation at the Stilfontein mine in North West are to continue until police are satisfied. Police spokeswoman Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed this on Wednesday as officials ...

The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is demanding the establishment ... what it describes as the Stilfontein massacre in the North West. Supplied: SAPS On Wednesday, 78 bodies ...

The calls come after close to 80 dead bodies were pulled from an abandoned gold mine this week in a government-led operation to shutdown illicit mining networks in the North West. Mineral ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least ...

Police have arrested suspected illegal mining ringleaders in Stilfontein in the North West. It is alleged that they tortured ... Join thousands of devoted South Africans who look to News24 to bring ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended ... Patrick Asaneng, the acting police commissioner for North West province. The announcement brought a sudden end to a disaster that ...

In South Africa, authorities have retrieved at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine following a siege aimed at curbing illegal mining. The operation, which has arrested survivors for illegal ...