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

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

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

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

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' ...

Illegal miners at a disused South African shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out the hundreds believed to be underground, a miner and a community leader ...

We need to be clear that the activities of these miners are illegal. They pose a risk to our economy, communities and ...

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 ...

LOCAL communities have started offering support of emergency supplies to possibly hundreds of illegal miners trapped in the ...

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

Police minister Senzo Mchunu says an intergovernmental team and community leaders must meet to devise a practical strategy to ...