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

The police are limiting food and water supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be in a disused shaft. Read ...

The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province as ...

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

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

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

Earlier this week, community members in Stilfontein decided to enter the mine shaft and assist illegal miners to resurface.

The state of South Africa is denying thousands of miners access to food and water, putting their lives at risk ...

Community members are searched by South African Police Service (SAPS) officers before entering the mine shaft to negotiate with artisanal miners underground to resurface in Stilfontein on November 13, ...

Illegal miners at a disused SA shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out those ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.