The Ellis Park Relief Trust, established after a fatal crowd stampede during a soccer derby at Ellis Park stadium in April, paid out 21 victims on the first day of compensation on Friday.

A senior security officer on duty at Ellis Park Stadium on April 11 saw private security guards throw teargas into the crowd, allegedly sparking the stampede that claimed 43 lives. And this ...

Today marks exactly 21 years since a stampede claimed 43 lives during a league match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg. The disaster at the Doornfontein ...

Kaizer Chiefs chairman Kaizer Motaung said the Ellis Park stampede that claimed 43 lives on 11 April 2001 is a day that cannot be removed from his memory. ADVERTISEMENT In a Soweto Derby Premier ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-- At least 43 people have been killed at a football match between South Africa's two biggest teams. The stampede began as a crowd tried to get into Ellis Park stadium in ...

11 April is eternally etched in the annals of Kaizer Chiefs history for it was on this day in 2001 that a catastrophe occurred at Ellis Park.

South African rescue services work around victims of a stampede Ellis Park in Johannesburg on 11 April 2001. 43 people died in the stampede, which happened when a crowd tried to enter the ...

Two other featured stakes events scheduled are the $275,000 Ellis Park Derby (Listed) and $175,000 Groupie Doll (Listed), taking place Sunday, Aug. 11.