A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reiterated the call to those illegal miners who are still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return to the surface.

Senzo Mchunu's comments seem more conciliatory than those of a cabinet minister who previously said the government would not send help because they were "criminals".

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

SAHRC said any approach towards the situation of the trapped illegal miners, must adhere to human rights principles.