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 ...
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 ...
Rescue operations involving volunteers ongoing in Stilfontein amid reports that hundreds are still trapped underground.
Court seeks to halt blockade on abandoned Stilfontein mine over concerns that hundreds hidden underground are at risk ...
Police cordoned off the shaft recently in a bid to shut down illegal mining activity at the abandoned mine – cutting off the ...
Chief, President Cyril Ramaphosa, has informed Parliament he has extended the deployment of 1 100 SANDF members for service ...
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 ...
The rescue operation led by community volunteers in Khuma near Stilfontein to retrieve illegal miners at Shaft 11 in one of ...