Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

The deputy minister argued that the trapped miners do not have correct documentation and rescuing them sets a bad precedence.

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has contradicted Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni's previous statement that the ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Johannesburg, Nov 25 (IANS) The South African Police Service (SAPS) on Monday announced the arrest of 14 illegal miners who emerged from an abandoned mine in Stilfontein, North West ...

Illegal miners, who were arrested after being rescued from disused mines at Stilfontein, North West, have appeared ... convicted for contravention of South Africa’s Immigration Act.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) says more than 1,500 illegal miners, colloquially known as zama zamas have since emerged from the disused mines at Stilfontein in North West following an ...

A system of pulleys and ropes installed by members of the South Africa Police Service is ... the illegal miners still underground at Stilfontein, North West. Civil organisation, the Society ...

The police have confirmed the surfacing and arrest of six more suspected illegal miners at two shafts in Stilfontein in the North West on Wednesday. Two of them were brought up in a community-led ...