STILFONTEIN - Residents in Stilfontein have threatened to take to the streets over the standoff between police and the illegal miners occupying a shaft at the old Buffelsfontein mine. This ...

A South African Police Services (Saps) vehicle is parked near the mine shaft in Stilfontein on 17 November ... Africans place human rights at the centre of criminal activities.

These were the chilling words of Clement Moeletsi, a rescued illegal miner, as he described the inhumane conditions faced by those trapped underground in Stilfontein's disused mineshafts.

Tensions between the State, activists and community members in Stilfontein have been running high, as the community members demanded that government rescues the miners. On the other hand ...

The High Court in Pretoria has ordered government to rescue illegal miners in Stilfontein. Retrieval of the illegal miners is expected to begin on Monday.

The discovery of children at Stilfontein mine has sparked concern after the standoff at the abandoned mine exposed the prevalence of cross-border child trafficking and exploitation. The North West ...

This is part of an intensified Operation Vala Umgodi that saw police cut off the supply of food, water and medication from Stilfontein locals to the illegal miners underground. READ: Second group ...

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 ...

The government has been blamed for the continued deaths of the illegal miners trapped at Stilfontein Mine in North West. Labour union, the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (Giwusa ...