South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday called for a peaceful resolution to the standoff at a disused mine shaft in Stilfontein town, North West Province, where thousands of illegal miners ...

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

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

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

Tensions are escalating between South African authorities and illegal miners trapped ... warning that the situation in North ...

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

South African police say they will continue to arrest any illegal miners who emerge from a disused gold mine where hundreds, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...