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

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

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

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

An Eastern Cape businessman was found guilty of defrauding the South African Police Service (SAPS) of R160 000. Christopher ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal miners are thought to be underground.

The South African Police Service arrested a man who robbed two of its members in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He took their ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) estimates that 350 to 400 illegal miners are refusing to resurface from an abandoned ...

Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reiterated the call to those illegal miners who are still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return to the surface.