The body of an illegal miner has been recovered from the Stilfontein mine in the North West. The decomposed body was ...

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Stilfontein resident, Thandeka Thom said there were no job opportunities in the area and desperation drives many to become ...

The miners have been in a shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West province, for about a month and have refused to cooperate ...

A body was brought out of an abandoned South African gold mine as police tried to evict hundreds of illegal miners hiding out ...

Community leader Thembile Botman says illegal miners, who are still stuck in a mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West, cannot resurface on their own as there are no operators on top. This as he ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

The visit will take place at the Stilfontein area on Friday, November 15 at 10am. Mogotsi added that the SAPS is committed to ...

Hundreds of illegal miners remain underground at an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein after police allegedly cut off their ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...