Seventy-eight dead bodies have been brought to the surface of the abandoned gold mine at Stilfontein in South Africa, after being blockaded by the African National Congress government for months.

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

Picture: Cailynn Pretorius/EWN CAPE TOWN - The struggle of the Stilfontein miners has been brought to the attention of delegates at the Mining Indaba. About 40 activists staged a picket outside ...