Ntsokolo, a 40-year-old father of six children, survived underground for 18 days with no food except scraps of expired goods.

The North West health department is awaiting essential documentation, including death certificates, to proceed with the burial of 23 bodies of illegal miners ...

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were pulled from an abandoned shaft earlier in 2025 when police intensified an ...

The organisation, along with religious and traditional leaders, held a cleansing ceremony at shafts 10 and 11 of the Buffelsfontein mine this week, where dozens of miners perished.

The people of Khuma, activists and civil organisations are calling for accountability for the deaths of illegal miners in ...

STILFONTEIN - The people of Khuma, activists and civil organisations are calling for accountability for the deaths of illegal miners in Stillfontein shafts. Scores of unidentified Zama-Zamas have been ...

The community of Khuma in the North West is holding a memorial service for illegal miners who died underground in Stilfontein ...

RELIEF workers must be granted access to the Stilfontein mine where thousands of workers are believed to be trapped and in desperate need of medical attention and food, the North Gauteng High ...

The North West Department of Health has positively identified 25 individuals through DNA matching, including foreign ...

In total, 78 corpses were recovered during an operation to get illegal miners - also known as zama zamas - out of a ...

The men are believed to have died of starvation after a police crackdown on illegal mining in Stilfontein last year. Only 25 of the 78 dead miners have been identified and collected by their families ...