Police have rubbished claims that officers detonated explosives at Stilfontein’s Shaft 10 during a rescue operation.

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

“The Stilfontein illegal mining saga is too complex,” Bishop Sipuka said, alluding to reports that law enforcement agencies have blocked food and water supplies to the miners to force them to ...

Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, has become a focal point in the battle against illegal mining. As part of Operation Vala Umgodi (“Close the Hole”), authorities have sealed numerous ...

STILFONTEIN - Illegal miners that remain underground in Stillfontein will receive no food parcels for at least a week. That’s according to the South African National Civic Organisation ...

An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the lives of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West ...

Police process illegal miners at a abandoned mine in Stilfontein after they resurfaced ... miners were placed under arrest for illegal mining, trespassing, and contravention of the Immigration ...

Government is also working to tackle the underlying socio-economic issues that contribute to illegal mining, including ... extracted from underground. The Stilfontein rescue operation that is ...