The High Court in Pretoria has ordered that the mine shaft in Stilfontein, North West, where suspected illegal miners have ...

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.

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

As authorities await for illegal miners trapped at the Stilfontein Gold Mine to resurface, the Gauteng High Court issued an ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

South Africa’s government says it won’t help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West ...

The South African government said on Friday it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.

A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...