Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s “smoke them out” comments in relation to illegal miners were not simply ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has convened a Cabinet Lekgotla with leaders from all spheres of government - to review government's progress on priorities, assess challenges and set the agenda for the ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

The ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula said the party will not entertain allegations that Khumbudzo Ntshavheni is facing ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

A Cabinet minister laughed when she was asked if the authorities would send supplies. “We are not sending help to criminals,” Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said, adding that "criminals are not to be helped.

Minister of the President Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the strategy was to “smoke them out”, meaning it would force the miners to resurface. When many didn’t, this caused a nationwide debate ...

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the miners should be smoked out and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe was equally hostile. “Police officers cut off food supplies and ...

FILE: A police officer in Mozambique ahead of the inauguration of President-Elect Daniel Chapo. Picture: Jacques Nelles/Eyewitness News MAPUTO - Police and military personnel have been deployed to ...

Authorities made clear their approach when South African Cabinet Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told reporters in November that the government would not help the miners, who they consider criminals.

In November, IOL reported that Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni insisted that government will not attempt to rescue illegal miners stranded underground in Stilfontein – but ...