Ntsokolo, a 40-year-old father of six children, survived underground for 18 days with no food except scraps of expired goods.

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were pulled from an abandoned shaft earlier in 2025 when police intensified an ...

The North West Health Department has given paupers' burials to 30 of the unclaimed bodies from the Stilfontein illegal mining ...

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

STILFONTEIN - The people of Khuma, activists and civil organisations are calling for accountability for the deaths of illegal miners in Stillfontein shafts. Scores of unidentified Zama-Zamas have been ...

The men are believed to have died of starvation after a police crackdown on illegal mining in Stilfontein last year. Only 25 of the 78 dead miners have been identified and collected by their families ...

RELIEF workers must be granted access to the Stilfontein mine where thousands of workers are believed to be trapped and in desperate need of medical attention and food, the North Gauteng High ...

The SA Human Rights Commission has established an inquiry into the deaths at Stilfontein. The commission will be sitting soon to hear stakeholders' stories.

In total, 78 corpses were recovered during an operation to get illegal miners - also known as zama zamas - out of a ...

The illegal miners who are still underground in Stilfontein, in the North West, are not trapped. Those who have opted not to exit the mine are simply still there because they fear being arrested.