North West police have dismissed reports that illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Tsoaeli, who escaped from custody in Stilfontein, has died. Tsoaeli resurfaced from a shaft at the Buffelsfontein ...

South Africa's mining industry faces a crisis, with over 6,000 abandoned mines posing safety risks and economic challenges ...

An emancipated miner is carried on a stretcher after being rescued from underground during the official rescue operation at a disused gold mine shaft in Stilfontein, around 150 kilometers ...

After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, in mid-January following a court order and intense public ...

The highly specialised equipment of emergency preparedness and response organisation Mines Rescue Services South Africa ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, in mid-January following a court ...

“The lives lost in Stilfontein cannot be in vain ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers ...

Andrew Grant has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Benjamin Ofosu-Atuahene has received funding in the form of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

those who ‘take a chance’) in abandoned South Africa mines, shocking the country and the world. In mid-January, 87 bodies were discovered within Stilfontein gold mine’s accessible tunnels in ...

South Africa’s model of racial domination would undergird this simultaneous production of wealth and poverty. Apartheid furnished the reserve of precarious migrant workers that mining demanded.

South Africa’s police minister has pledged to rescue all the people still trapped in an abandoned goldmine in the northwestern town of Stilfontein “as soon as possible”. In an interview with ...