The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed in underground shafts to the ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and ...

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

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

Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein ...

The Stilfontein mine is a crime scene,” Ramaphosa said, adding that police must secure the area while ensuring the miners' ...

The High Court in Pretoria, South Africa issued an interim order on Sunday allowing emergency personnel access to an abandoned mine in Stilfontein, where illegal miners have been remained from fear of ...

South Africa Tries to "Smoke Out" Illegal Gold Miners | Vantage with Palki Sharma There are thousands of illegal gold miners ...

Hundreds of clandestine miners at a disused South African shaft are struggling to survive in grim conditions because of a ...

LOCAL communities have started offering support of emergency supplies to illegal miners trapped in the Buffelsfontein mine, ...

Picture: Emmanuel Croset / AFP A plan is in place to rescue illegal miners trapped in an abandoned shaft in Stilfontein, North West although authorities are keeping the details under wraps. The South ...

“We will smoke them out”, regarding illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West, appears to be a decisive ...