They are among those arrested this week during a special government-led operation to shut down the underground operation at Bufflesfontein Gold Mine.

SAPS faces mounting pressure as controversy erupts over plans to dismantle its internal watchdog, the National Police ...

South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a months-long police siege. The Giwusa labour union called the ...

No illegal miners remain underground after four days of a rescue operation at the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine in South Africa's North West Province, police confirmed Thursday.

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

It will be a 'mammoth task' to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

Rescuers have completed a final sweep of a disused South African gold mine shaft near Stilfontein, concluding that no illegal ...

The alleged ringleaders in the Stilfontein mine saga are expected to be among more than 100 suspects set to appear in court ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

A total of 246 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought to the ground over three days of rescue operation at an abandoned ...