The Stilfontein Crisis Committee said even though all surviving miners have been rescued, the shaft is littered with body parts of some miners who died trying to make their way to the surface.

Shaft 11 of the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein Mine. Picture: @newstruthliz/AP A total of 51 dead bodies have been recovered from the abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein in the past two days.

The police force said officials had helped James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national also known as Tiger, to escape after he was pulled up from the mine in Stilfontein. More than 240 illegal miners ...

STILFONTEIN - Some community leaders have called on government to help retrieve the remains of some of the illegal miners left underground during an operation to shut down an illicit mining ...