South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday that hundreds of illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine shaft must ...

SOUTH Africa's crackdown on illegal mining has lurched into a dilemma. This as thousands of miners remain trapped underground ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a ...

Hundreds of clandestine miners at a disused South African shaft are struggling to survive in grim conditions because of a police operation to force them out, one of the men who escaped told AFP Sunday ...

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

The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province, as part of a law enforcement operation aimed at deterring illegal mining ...

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 ...

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