Operation at the Stilfontein mine in North West are to continue until police are satisfied. Police spokeswoman Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed this on Wednesday as officials entered day four of the ...
Rescue workers were conducting a final sweep at a mine in Stilfontein in the North West province on Thursday to determine ...
South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...
The Stilfontein Crisis Committee said even though all surviving miners have been rescued, the shaft is littered with body ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...
South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...