Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped ...

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

The death of up to 100 miners at Stilfontein reflects a callous and couldn't-care-less attitude that has developed in the government, and sadly throughout much of society (white and black). It is that ...

These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa. — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the ...