Saftu condemns government failures in the mining sector and calls for a full commission of inquiry into recent zama zama ...

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

About 40 activists staged a picket outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre to bring attention to the rights of ...

There are thought to be at least 50 000 informal miners working underground in South Africa. According to the auditor general ...

The four, attached to the Stilfontein Vala Umgodi operation, were arrested on Thursday morning in the area on charges of defeating the ends of justice and are out on R1 000 bail each. READ: Brutal ...

Only 18 families have come forward to assist in the identification of the 75 badly decomposed bodies of illegal miners in ...

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

Horrendous images of the emaciated figures of the living and the dead as they were brought to the surface at Stilfontein show ...

Human rights lawyer Mametlwe Sebei has warned that police will have to deal with consequences if they continue to ignore calls to transfer the Stilfontein Zama zamas to hospitals. He said police ...

The group called for justice following the Stilfontein mining tragedy. The Indaba is attended annually by government ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

So far, five families have come forward to identify illegal miners who died in Stilfontein's abandoned mine shafts.