Emotions ran high on Friday afternoon when residents of Khuma in Stilfontein, North West, accused police minister Senzo ...

Who remembers Richard Roundtree as New York private detective, John Shaft? The movie and then tv series theme song was done ...

The Gauteng High Court dismissed the Society for the Protection of our Constitution's application for relief for illegal ...

Group of 14 illegal miners who resurfaced from shaft 10 at the Stilfontein disused mine on Sunday night were arrested. According to police, all the men are Mozambique nationals, and a 14-year-old boy ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

North-West Community Safety MEC Wessels Morweng told Briefly News a rescue operation was underway at Stilfontein in ...

one of the few operational shafts in the town. The mine, founded in 1949, has not produced any gold in 30 years but now functions as a pump station for groundwater that inundates surviving mines ...

A Canadian based band set a new world record for the deepest concert underground at around 9,000 foot level, local media reported. The band named ‘Miners ...

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South Africa on Friday in the hope of their loved ones emerging from the hole ...

The operation, dubbed ‘Vala Umgodi’ (Close the Hole) which has seen over a thousand zama zamas arrested, aims to disrupt the ...

Mosikili said the illegal miners who resurfaced told the police that some of them were weak and couldn’t manage to come out of the mine shaft. “The community came and said we are prepared to ...

There is nothing left underground for now,” Ayanda Ndabeni, 35, who was hoisted out of the shaft on Friday, said on Sunday. In the past week, about a dozen people have resurfaced from the mine after ...