JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known ... was among those who came out of the mine near the town of Stilfontein during a rescue operation last week following ...

The Mine Rescue Services (MRS) team tasked with retrieving miners trapped in Shaft 11 of the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine on the outskirts of Stilfontein, North West, worked well into the ...

The rise of illegal mining in the country has raised human rights concerns and questions about who ultimately benefits.

Movie"Abandoned by their employers and the government, the unions and local residents came together to avert a food crisis." A documentary about the devastating economic ripple effected by the ...

Illegal gold mining has been happening at disused gold mines such as Stilfontein and at more than 6,000 other abandoned mines in South Africa. Sibanye-Stillwater is among the big gold producers in ...