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

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

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

The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province as ...

South Africa is a mineral-rich country ... The SAPS has previously said that among those to resurface from the Stilfontein ...

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

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

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.

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

“Pending finalisation of the application, the mine shaft in Stilfontein that forms the subject matter ... Independent Online, ...

Illegal miners at a disused SA shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out those ...