Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

The police have roped in mining and rescue experts to help haul to the surface scores of illegal miners who have been holed ...

The Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu is expected to visit the Stilfontein Mine in the North West where thousands of zama zamas ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu arrives in Stilfontein to address illegal miners underground, 15 November 2024. Picture: Jacques Nelles/Eyewitness News STILFONTEIN - An operation to shut down an ...

The South African Police Service and the army have been redeployed to the area as part of ongoing efforts to fight illegal mining.

General secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions, Zwelinzima Vavi, has saluted Police Minister Senzo Mchunu for his measured intervention in the standoff between illegal miners ...

But Senzo Mchunu also insisted the government wanted to save lives and that authorities would work together to end the situation safely. The police minister's remarks seem more conciliatory than ...

The South African government has assembled a team, involving mine rescue experts, to bring illegal miners to safety from a ...