Ntshavheni’s remarks must be viewed in the context of how the current government under the presidency of Ramaphosa continues ...

“We will smoke them out”, regarding illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West, appears to be a decisive ...

South Africa is a mineral-rich country ... The SAPS has previously said that among those to resurface from the Stilfontein ...

For nearly two weeks police have been stationed outside the abandoned gold mine at Stilfontein, about 150 kilometres (100 ... Ndabeni — who has been a zama zama, as clandestine miners in South Africa ...

The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province, as part of a law enforcement operation aimed at deterring illegal mining ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...

A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

Emergency services have been at the site, in Stilfontein, around 90 miles south-west of Johannesburg ... More than 1,000 miners have already emerged and been arrested. South Africa is a mineral-rich ...

The South African government said on Friday it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a ...