The organisations called on the portfolio committee to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions.

The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

Officers sealed off mine shafts and blocked the delivery of food ... He had worked for several years at a landfill near Stilfontein, but the pay was too paltry to support his wife and four ...

The issue gained public attention when police launched Operation Vala Umgodi, an effort to remove illegal miners from ...

Johannesburg EMS and other search and rescuers called off a search at a Gauteng mine on Sunday, where alleged illegal miners ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues “resorted to cannibalism”. “They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for ...

“The absence of parliamentary oversight, condemnation, or intervention in response to this atrocity raises serious concerns ...

Police in North West are still in the process of identifying bodies of illegal miners retrieved during the operation that ended in January.

Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department ...

Security governance at abandoned or closed mining sites must be improved and inclusive policies that address employment needs ...

KHUMA, South Africa — For months, the miners and their families pleaded for help. By the time it came, the mine had become a tomb. Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of ...