Authorities said that at least 78 bodies were recovered from the Stilfontein mine. A trade union federation has accused the ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

Informal mining in South Africa continues despite police efforts to curb it, as seen in the recent operation in Stilfontein where over 1,000 miners were forced out of abandoned shafts.

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

The group criticised government operations such as Operation Vala Umgodi, which it described as prioritising sealing abandoned mine shafts over protecting the lives of vulnerable miners.

The latest tragedy has seen at least 78 bodies and over 200 survivors brought to the surface from a mine in Stilfontein.