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

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.

Around the gaping shaft of a disused mine, the South African police on Saturday waited to pounce on anyone trying to escape ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

South Africa's government says it will not help about 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic ...

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reaffirmed government's commitment to resolving the tense situation at Stilfontein in the North West, through peaceful and safe measures.

President Ramaphosa clarified that illegal mining is a criminal offence that threatens economic stability, community safety, ...