Maverick News Stilfontein mine tragedy was a consequence of SA’s porous borders, says police minister 3 min 1 By Ethan van Diemen
Maverick News Stilfontein siege: Activists demand justice as autopsies reveal starvation and state negligence 5 min 15 By Lerato Mutsila and Kristin Engel
Op-eds Informal mining in SA is here to stay, and police brutality won’t end it — here’s what will 6 min 11 By Rosalind C Morris
Maverick News Is it any wonder that the holes of the Witwatersrand still scream with death? 4 min 17 By Richard Poplak
Maverick Citizen Stilfontein mine tragedy highlights the need for a much clearer SAPS Code of Conduct 5 min 9 By David Bruce
Maverick News Notes on the underground — where the most desperate and impoverished scavenge for illicit gold 11 min 84 By Richard Poplak
Maverick News Stilfontein mine rescue ends with 78 dead, 246 rescued and ringleaders in custody 4 min 21 By Lerato Mutsila
Business Maverick The ‘surrender or starve’ saga in Stilfontein is a chronicle of deaths foretold 6 min 38 By Ed Stoddard
South Africa Stilfontein illegal miners are ‘eating human flesh’ and cockroaches to survive, rescued miners tell ConCourt 7 min 48 By Dianne Hawker
Business Maverick From gold prices to chinchillas: five key trends impacting South Africa's mining landscape in 2025 4 min 2 By Ed Stoddard
Business Maverick After the Bell: Smoking out an alternative to the ‘surrender or starve’ strategy on SA's illegal miners 5 min 2 By Ed Stoddard
Maverick News SAPS will continue arresting Stilfontein miners despite court order, SAHRC complaint 6 min 26 By Nonkululeko Njilo and Vincent Cruywagen
Maverick News ‘Even prisoners are not left to die’ — community supports illegal miners as SAPS refuses to assist 6 min 17 By Nonkululeko Njilo
Business Maverick ‘We will smoke them out’ - Ntshavheni talks tough amid scepticism over number of zama zamas trapped underground 2 min 38 By Ed Stoddard and Neesa Moodley
Maverick News Walking Johannesburg's hidden waterways on a journey through history and neglect along the Klip River 8 min 2 By Sean Christie
Business Maverick Hundreds of illegal miners arrested after underground food and water supplies cut 3 min 16 By Ed Stoddard
Business Maverick Eskom sub-station powering Sibanye's Kloof 4 shaft blown up, zama zamas suspected 2 min 8 By Ed Stoddard
Maverick News Families demand justice after informal miners burn to death during police raid 4 min 3 By Kimberly Mutandiro
Maverick News Illegal mining crackdown — minister fires warning to foreigners ‘wreaking havoc’, as national drive racks up 4,000 arrests 5 min 1 By Vincent Cruywagen
Maverick News ‘Mr X’s’ testimony at Lily Mine inquest paints chilling picture of illegal mining facilitated by employees 7 min 0 By Vincent Cruywagen
Business Maverick Sibanye signals 3,000 lay-offs at Kloof as operational woes trump sky-high gold prices 3 min 3 By Ed Stoddard
