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 ...

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, ...

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.

The SAPS task team in the North West has called on those illegal miners still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return ...

The Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu is expected to visit the Stilfontein Mine in the North West where thousands of zama zamas ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) and South African National Defence Force (SANDF) will on Thursday allow food and ...