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 ...

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, ...

Earlier this week, community members in Stilfontein decided to enter the mine shaft and assist illegal miners to resurface.

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.

SAPS arrested five men for road spiking cases on the N1 near Bela Bela. The men robbed motorists after throwing spikes across ...

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 ...

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

Up to 4,000 miners are believed to be without food or water in a closed gold mine in South Africa, after authorities cut off ...

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