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

Acting provincial police commissioner Major General Patrick Asaneng is furious and frustrated that suspected illegal mining ...

An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...

Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Neo Tshoaeli resurfaced from shaft 11 in Stilfontein during a rescue ...

The man died on Thursday in a hospital to which 33 miners were admitted after a three-day operation that ended on January 16 ...

South African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...

While South Africa is still reeling from the deadly police siege at the Stilfontein mine, one illegal miner spoke to Reuters ...

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 bodies of 78 Zama Zama's were pulled from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

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

Rita de Sonsa wipes the sweat from her brow as she stands behind the counter of her once-bustling liquor store in Stilfontein. The rhythmic hum of customers that once filled the air has been ...