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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Emergency services have been at the site, in Stilfontein, around 90 miles south-west of Johannesburg, for several days. Police have blocked food and water entering the mine to, as one government ...