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, ...

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

Rescue operations for over 4 000 illegal miners in Stilfontein have been suspended as legal rulings and human rights ...

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

PRETORIA - The High Court in Pretoria has ordered the unblocking of access to the disused mine shaft in Stilfontein, to allow emergency services to reach scores of illegal miners. The zama-zamas have ...

STILFONTEIN, North West - Calls are mounting for the South African Police Service to grant space to illegal miners who remain underground at North West's Orkney and Stilfontein shafts, to return to ...

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

Chief, President Cyril Ramaphosa, has informed Parliament he has extended the deployment of 1 100 SANDF members for service ...

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

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

The rescue operation led by community volunteers in Khuma near Stilfontein to retrieve illegal miners at Shaft 11 in one of ...

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