Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

STILFONTEIN - Over 1,000 illegal miners have resurfaced from abandoned old shafts in Stilfontein and Orkney in the North West ...

There is still at least 4 000 illegal miners still trapped inside one of the abandoned mine shaft which is the centre of ...

JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of illegal miners remain below ground in an unstable mining shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West, as police wait for them to surface. Last week, more than 1,000 miners ...

In this operation in Orkney, SAPS officers are seen confiscating food, water, alcohol, and necessities meant for illegal ... of Stilfontein and Orkney. The operation has seen almost 600 miners ...

In a significant escalation of activities related to illegal mining, more than 1 000 illicit miners, commonly referred to as zama zamas, have resurfaced from abandoned shafts in Stilfontein ...

Over 500 illegal miners were handcuffed at the Margaret shaft in Stilfontein. They resurfaced from the gold mine over the weekend following a three-day operation. The police operation has been ...

The intensive operation by South African law enforcement at the Stilfontein shaft has now resulted in the capture of 1,004 illegal miners, predominantly foreign nationals from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, ...

North West police have confirmed the number of illegal miners who resurfaced from abandoned shafts in Stilfontein has reached more than 1,000. Supplied The suspects have been coming up in groups ...