The illegal miner said the idea of eating human flesh started as a joke among those trapped underground. But as time marched ...

Political parties in South Africa are demanding a commission of inquiry into the deaths of miners at the Stilfontein mines, ...

Opinion - Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State's representatives neither know nor care that the Buffelsfontein mine was ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

Speaking to the media on Thursday, acting North West police commissioner Patrick Asaneng confirmed there were no illegal ...

The move to cut off food and water supply in a bid to force the zama zamas angered some activists, who labelled the operation a humanitarian crisis.

As the cage reached a depth of 1,280 meters, Charles and Mkwayi were confronted with scenes that may haunt them forever. Hundreds of emaciated miners, some near death, lay together with dozens of dead ...

Human rights lawyer Richard Spoor argues that government indecision and police actions led to the tragic deaths of 78 zama ...

Some of the zama zamas are believed to have starved to death after police cut off food and water supply during an operation ...

Stilfontein Crisis Committee is contemplating charging the government with murder following the discovery of over 70 miners.

The Stilfontein Crisis Committee says even though all surviving illegal miners have rescued, the shaft is littered with body ...