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

The committee has been called on to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions and convene an urgent public ...

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

Since August 2024, more than 1,000 illegal miners surfaced from the abandoned shafts in Stilfontein and 87 bodies were also retrieved. The commission of inquiry will sit in May this year ...

Joburg EMS initiated rescue efforts, but were forced to halt at a depth of 15 meters due to low oxygen levels.

JOHANNESBURG - A rescue operation continues in Roodepoort on Monday morning as emergency services work to retrieve alleged ...

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Human Rights Commission has instituted an inquiry into illegal mining. This after the commission received a complaint over the Stilfontein illegal mining operations.

Last month, over 1,000 illegal miners and the bodies of 78 others were pulled out of an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West.

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to survive, then left to starve.