Chants of “Stilfontein is now! We want justice on the ground!” and “Justice for the miners” reverberated on the sidelines of the Mining Indaba in Cape Town on Wednesday, 5 February 2025, as local ...

More than 50 civil society organisations have banded together to uncover exactly what caused the deaths of the miners who perished in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine siege. At least 20 of the informal ...

The mine made headlines after illegal mining activity was reported there. Moreover, the bodies of 78 illegal miners were brought to the surface last month. CAPE TOWN - A group of activists have ...

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The Department of Mineral Resources is facing backlash from advocacy groups, including the South African Civic Organisation (Sanco) and Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua) over its ...

Mineral and petroleum resources minister Gwede Mantashe has slammed suggestions that people trapped in the Stilfontein mining shaft last year were deserving of humanitarian aid after scores died ...

Stilfontein will and must be remembered as one of the worst tragedies we have witnessed in the 30 years of democracy in South Africa. From August last year, 87 artisanal miners were deserted and hung ...

South African authorities may begin holding pauper's funerals next month for 66 unclaimed corpses from 78 found in a gold mine in Stilfontein, North West province, in January, a health official said.

Late on Sunday night, 14 zama zamas surfaced from deep underground at a disused mine in Stilfontein, where a major operation against illegal mining is ongoing. Police were guarding the shaft’s ...

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe was in the North West town on Tuesday afternoon where a mass rescue and retrieval operation was underway. JOHANNESBURG - Mineral Resources Minister Gwede ...

On Monday, authorities used a metal cage to begin recovering men and bodies from the shaft, in an operation expected to run for days. "We don't know exactly how many people are remaining there," ...