The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ordered that the mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West, where scores of illegal ...

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

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

The rescue operation led by community volunteers in Khuma near Stilfontein to retrieve illegal miners at Shaft 11 in one of ...

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

Rescue operations for over 4 000 illegal miners in Stilfontein have been suspended as legal rulings and human rights ...

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

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

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

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

The police are limiting food and water supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be in a disused shaft. Read ...

Hundreds of clandestine miners at a disused South African shaft are struggling to survive in grim conditions because of a ...