The High Court in Pretoria is today expected to hear the main application over the stand-off between illegal miners and police at a mine in Stilfontein in the North West. The organisation, Society for ...

In May last year I met the then minister of water and sanitation Senzo Mchunu at a water and sanitation workshop in Cape Town ...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft and the ...

Stilfontein, a town in South Africa’s North West province, has become a focal point for the country’s growing illegal mining ...

Police minister Senzo Mchunu says an intergovernmental team and community leaders must meet to devise a practical strategy to ...

A team including mine safety experts, police, the army and various government departments was scheduled to meet Friday to put ...

While 1 000 miners resurfaced from mines in the area after supply routes were blocked, the illegal miners refused to ...

Community volunteers who have been hard at work making attempts to bring the illegal miners also known as zama zamas to the ...

LOCAL communities have started offering support of emergency supplies to illegal miners trapped in the Buffelsfontein mine, ...