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 ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

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

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

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, ...

Reports indicate that some unidentified illegal miners are planning to enter and mine in the Neung South Forest Reserve in ...

Court seeks to halt blockade on abandoned Stilfontein mine over concerns that hundreds hidden underground are at risk ...

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

The rescue operation led by community volunteers in Khuma near Stilfontein to retrieve illegal miners at Shaft 11 in one of ...

Earlier this week, community members in Stilfontein decided to enter the mine shaft and assist illegal miners to resurface.

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