Detained after being accused of controlling the illegal operations at an abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein in South Africa ...

Patrick Ntsokolo hopes to testify before the Human Rights Commission probe into the Stilfontein tragedy The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is to hold hearings into the tragedy at ...

The people of Khuma, activists and civil organisations are calling for accountability for the deaths of illegal miners in ...

Over the past several weeks, the zama-zamas at Stilfontein have been locked in a standoff with police, who surrounded the entrance to the mine shaft and blocked off their food supplies in an ...

South African police confirm the partly decomposed body of one miner had been brought to the surface from inside the Stilfontein mine in the country's North West province Thursday morning.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...

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 ...

Twenty-three more unidentified bodies, recovered earlier this year from disused gold mines at Stilfontein, will be buried in ...

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.

South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some of those accused of mining underground ...

The miners have been holed underground for weeks after police say they broke into a closed mine shaft in Stilfontein, a mining town around 95 miles from Johannesburg. Officials with the South ...

The most shocking thing for Jonathan, who had endured six gruelling months living and working underground in an abandoned South African gold mine, was the abuse he witnessed being meted out to ...