Human rights lawyer advocate Mametlwe Sebei says the driving force behind the actions of Zama Zamas stuck underground in a ...

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, ...

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 ...

Rescue operations involving volunteers ongoing in Stilfontein amid reports that hundreds are still trapped underground.

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

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

Police say they will continue to perform their duties at the Stilfontein mine in the North West Province, where illegal ...

The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province, as part of a law enforcement operation aimed at deterring illegal mining ...