The South African Police Service (SAPS) estimates that 350 to 400 illegal miners are refusing to resurface from an abandoned ...

As five illegal miners resurfaced on Thursday and a partly decomposed body brought out of an old mine in Stilfontein, North ...

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

As a part of the police's 'Close the Hole' operation, entrances used to deliver basic supplies to miners inside the Stilfontein mineshaft have been sealed. Estimates initially suggested up to 4,000 ...

South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

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The miners have been in a shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West province, for about a month and have refused to cooperate ...

Hundreds of illegal miners remain underground at an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein after police allegedly cut off their ...