The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

North West police are on the hunt for an alleged Stilfontein mining kingpin ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites ...

North West Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Patrick Asaneng, has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged Stilfontein ... by and about Africa - aggregating ...

The Acting Provincial Commissioner of North ... West, Major General Patrick Asaneng has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged kingpin who resurfaced from shaft 11 in ...

has launched a manhunt for an alleged illegal mining ringleader who is believed to have escaped after resurfacing from the Stilfontein gold mine in the North West Province of South Africa.

North West Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Patrick Asaneng, has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged Stilfontein mining kingpin. This comes after James Neo ...

The South African Police Service defended itself against allegations made against the police during the Stilfontein rescue effort These include claims that a volunteer was arrested, private ...

(250116) -- JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 16, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Rescue vehicles are seen at the rescue operation site of an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, North West Province, South Africa, on Jan. 16, 2025.

Community members on their way to the mine in Stilfontein, North West, on 19 November 2024, where some of the illegal miners remain underground. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The Citizen The South ...

A tragedy has played out in a South Africa after 87 miners were left to ... The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off ...

STILFONTEIN - As the government takes stock of an extraordinary operation to retrieve illegal miners from underground, police in the North West are expected to remain on high alert in Stilfontein.