The Democratic Alliance, the second-biggest party in the governing coalition, calls for an independent inquiry.

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has defended the government’s response to rescuing illegal miners ...

STILFONTEIN - Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has arrived in Stilfontein to get the latest on developments on a ...

While rescue teams worked to retrieve illegal miners trapped in the Buffelsfontein gold mine just outside Stilfontein, anxious relatives watched from the sidelines as miners and corpses were brought ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe has reiterated the government's commitment to combating illegal ...

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe was in the North West town on Tuesday afternoon where a mass rescue and retrieval ...

Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has rubbished claims of a National Health Insurance (NHI) compromise that would see ...

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has arrived in Stilfontein to assess progress in the retrieval operation at an ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...