Cape Town police are searching for a detainee who escaped while being transported to Pollsmoor prison. The man reportedly ...

The police have cut off food and water to ... Stilfontein is one of many dying mining towns in South Africa, said David van Wyk, who researches the legacy of mining in South Africa at the Bench ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal ... “We’ve got about 6,000 abandoned mines in the country,” David Van Wyk, a lead researcher at Johannesburg-based ...

An intelligence-driven raid in Piketberg saw the discovery of a substantial amount of cocaine and illegal ammunition at the ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) is observing the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children ...

South African authorities are refusing to allow ... has resulted in mine workers becoming super exploited,” Van Wyk said. "The police never arrest the mining syndicates that control them.

Police opened an investigation into how the person died, she said. "We are not sending help to criminals," South African minister of presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said at a news briefing on ...