In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...

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 African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...

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

The man died on Thursday in a hospital to which 33 miners were admitted after a three-day operation that ended on January 16 ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining ringleader James “Tiger” Neo Tshoaeli’s escape from police custody was likely facilitated ...

The South African Police Service is investigating members who were on duty the day that an illegal mining kingpin escaped ...

A deadly shoot-out erupted between metro police and a group of illegal miners in Germiston during a crackdown on illicit ...

Mines Rescue Services (MRS), under the leadership of Mannas Fourie, recently saved 246 illegal miners (zama-zamas) who were trapped.

Authorities are under scrutiny after the escape of alleged illegal mining kingpin James Neo Tshoaeli, with investigations ...