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

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ordered the Stilfontein, North West ... The government notes and welcomes Standard and ...

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 ...

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

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

Up to 4,000 miners are believed to be without food or water in a closed gold mine in South Africa, after authorities cut off ...

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni posted a clip of heavily armed illegal miners after receiving backlash over ...

SANDU said the SAPS has four times more members than the defence force, a much bigger budget, all the resources to handle ...

Members of the South African Police Service stationed at the abandoned Stilfontein mine shaft in the North West have finally ...

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.

Government initially closed a shaft to deprive undocumented miners it called ‘criminal’ of food, water and medicine.