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.

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

The South African Police Service arrested a man from Thohoyandou in Limpopo for allegedly raping two children under the age ...

On Monday, authorities on site together with community rescue teams received a note from the illegal miners written in Zulu ...

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

EARLIER today, a bomb threat in the Phoenix Plaza sparked an immediate evacuation of the mall. Gareth Naidoo, the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa described the Stilfontein mine as a “crime scene”, on Monday, as he called for a peaceful resolution to the standoff at the disused mine shaft, where illegal miners are holed ...

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, ...

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.

The South African Police Service arrested a man who robbed two of its members in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He took their ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) estimates that 350 to 400 illegal miners are refusing to resurface from an abandoned ...