Four police officers arrested in connection with the escape of illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Tsoaeli in Stilfontein, North West, have been granted bail. Tsoaeli resurfaced from a shaft at the ...
The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.
A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. That ...
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...