Stilfontein in North West province is at the center of South Africa's fight against illegal mining. Several illegal miners ...

According to Natjoints, the Stilfontein mine rescue operation is "not as easy as it seems; it is quite complex".

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) has escalated its fight to rescue illegal miners trapped in an ...

The organisation has made an urgent application for direct access and leave to appeal directly to the apex court to compel ...

Illegal miners that remain underground in Stillfontein will receive no food parcels for at least a week. That’s according to ...

However, by October of the same year, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced that DNA evidence failed to link any ...

Human rights organisation Mining Affected Communities United in Action says to leave people underground in Stilfontein ...

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...

The organisation believes the High Court made an error in dismissing their request for the government to provide humanitarian ...

The zama zamas stuck in the Stilftonein Mine shaft in the North West have reportedly resorted to eating human flesh as more ...

An organisation representing mining communities has now approached the Constitutional Court to force government to save the ...

Government says a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas, have voluntarily emerged from the disused mine shafts in ...