Police Minister Senzo Mchunu made the revelation during a roundtable discussion with community leaders in Stilfontein a short ...

Stilfontein’s illegal mining crisis has become a focal point of national concern as thousands of miners, including vulnerable ...

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Senzo Mchunu says they don’t know how many people remain trapped in Stilfontein mine.

Legal proceedings for the detained Mozambican miners have been postponed as the government intensifies its crackdown on ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS), on Monday announced the arrest of 14 illegal miners, who emerged from an abandoned ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

The body has emerged from the closed gold mine in the northwest town of Stilfontein a day after South ... for weeks without basic supplies. Illegal mining remains common in South Africa's old ...

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

The police force said that operations would continue at all abandoned and disused mining shafts in the Stilfontein area and ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa—Tlotlisang Makoanyane ... risked arrest by descending thousands of feet into an abandoned gold mine, hoping to scrape enough of the precious metal out of the rock ...

The move signaled the government was taking a more conciliatory approach compared to earlier this week, when it said it wouldn't send help to the miners under the disused Stilfontein gold mine in ...