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

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 ...

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

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

South Africa’s government says it won’t help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West ...

As authorities await for illegal miners trapped at the Stilfontein Gold Mine to resurface, the Gauteng High Court issued an ...

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

Police cordoned off the shaft recently in a bid to shut down illegal mining activity at the abandoned mine – cutting off the ...

and no non-emergency personnel may enter the mine shaft. SANDF and SAPS members have been targeting illegal miners, also ...

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