National Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe has confirmed that the mine rescue experts will conduct a final sweep at the disused Stilfontein mine shaft on Thursday. Since August last year, a total ...

FILE - Rescued miners are seen as they are processed by police after being rescued at the mine shaft where rescue operations are ongoing as attempts are made to rescue illegal miners who have been ...

Ukraine blew up the No. 3 mine's shaft in the village of Pishchane in Donetsk Oblast to prevent Russia from deploying its troops closer to the front-line town of Pokrovsk, The New York Times (NYT) ...

Mathe said the Mine Rescue Service, which has been responsible for the operation in Stilfontein, would send a cage underground on Thursday morning “to see if any illegal miners resurface with the cage ...

We told them ‘we are here to help you, please don’t die’,” he told Reuters on Thursday near the opening of the mine shaft. “I put the bodies in the bags with my own hands. It was my ...

The situation at disused mine shafts in Stilfontein has been unfolding since August 2024, when small groups of illegal miners began emerging from the shafts. Over 1,576 illegal miners have been ...

The latest announcement comes as search and rescue efforts began wrapping up at the abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein following a monthslong standoff. The mine has been cordoned off by ...

Mathe said the Mine ... art equipment. That will hopefully be able to give us a picture of what is happening underground," she clarified. "We have indicated that as the SAPS, we have to verify this." ...

Police are uncertain how many miners remain inside the illegal mine but said it is likely in the hundreds. Miners, many from neighboring countries, entered the shaft near Stilfontein, about 140 ...

Illegal miners had taken over the mine shaft that was once part of South Africa’s vast mining industry. No longer viable for commercial mining, the men - many of them migrants from neighbouring ...

Thousands of illegal miners, many of them hailing from other countries, are said to operate in abandoned mine shafts across mineral-rich South Africa. In November, authorities launched a crackdown ...