A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

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

South Africa Tries to "Smoke Out" Illegal Gold Miners | Vantage with Palki Sharma There are thousands of illegal gold miners ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

Illegal miners at a disused South African shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out the hundreds believed to be underground, a miner and a community leader ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who ...