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

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

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

On Friday, January 10, the Gauteng High Court ordered the rescue of miners who had been trapped for over three months in shafts 10 and 11 of the former Buffelsfontein Gold Mine at Stilfontein.

Union president Mametlwe Sebei said that miners -- possibly dead, injured or too weak to reach Shaft 11 -- were still trapped in Shaft 10 when the alleged explosion occurred.

James Neo Tshwaeli, also known as 'Tiger', was extracted from shaft 11 in Johannesburg, but escaped the police's grasp.

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...

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 ...

Police said on Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies from the abandoned mine near Stilfontein, southwest of ...

A professional mine rescue company sent a large cage into the mine shaft near Stilfontein, about 140km (90 miles) southwest of Johannesburg, on Monday. “We can confirm to you that the machine is ...