Distressing content warningClement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa.That's ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
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 ...
Muhammad Hussain asked Portfolio Committee on Police chairperson Ian Cameron of the DA his thoughts on Stilfontein.
The Stilfontein tragedy reveals that SA is facing inevitable consequences of our social ills and official neglect, writes ...
Acting provincial police commissioner Major General Patrick Asaneng is furious and frustrated that suspected illegal mining ...
The South African Police Service is investigating members who were on duty the day that an illegal mining kingpin escaped ...
Department of Health said Stilfontein miners are in isolated ward, with heavy police presence and security guards ...
Mines Rescue Services (MRS), under the leadership of Mannas Fourie, recently saved 246 illegal miners (zama-zamas) who were trapped.
North West acting police commissioner, Patrick Asaneng, said while the purpose of Operation Vala Umgodi was to clamp down on ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since ...