As Police Minister Senzo Mchunu assessed Operation Vala Umgodi’s progress in Stilfontein, community members demanded better ...
Two weeks ago, Mchunu met with local authorities and community leaders as Operation Vala Umgodi was intensified to clamp down ...
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Senzo Mchunu says they don’t know how many people remain trapped in Stilfontein mine.
Legal proceedings for the detained Mozambican miners have been postponed as the government intensifies its crackdown on ...
The South African Police Service (SAPS), on Monday announced the arrest of 14 illegal miners, who emerged from an abandoned ...
South African police this week arrested a group of 14 people who resurfaced from a gold mine that’s at the centre of a tense, ...
Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...
South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...
The body has emerged from the closed gold mine in the northwest town of Stilfontein a day after South ... for weeks without basic supplies. Illegal mining remains common in South Africa's old ...
The move signaled the government was taking a more conciliatory approach compared to earlier this week, when it said it wouldn’t send help to the miners under the disused Stilfontein gold mine ...
Stilfontein is one of the mines that were ... Illegal mining remains common in South Africa’s old gold-mining areas, with miners going into closed shafts to dig for any possible remaining ...
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and his deputy Cassel Mathale have conducted an oversight inspection in Stilfontein near Klerksdorp in the ... More than a thousand individuals involved in illegal mining ...