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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Rescue operations in Stilfontein, North West, where over 4 000 illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground, were ...

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

RELIEF workers must be granted access to the Stilfontein mine where thousands of workers are believed to be trapped and in ...

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

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 ...