Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The Stilfontein tragedy reveals a chilling reality: many zama zamas are children, caught in criminal activities as a result ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...
Stilfontein: The end of ubuntu? At the start of hearings concerning the Life Esidimeni tragedy, 144 crosses appeared outside a Johannesburg nursery. The nursery's owner expressed to a local newspaper ...
The crisis at a disused gold mine in Stilfontein, North West, which has dragged on for months, has tested the ability of the government to curb illegal mining through Operation Vala Umgodi.
notes with sadness the gravity of the human tragedy that occurred at Stilfontein in the North West Province of South Africa over the last few weeks. The death of at least seventy-eight miners ...