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 ...

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

Dozens of local volunteers have stepped up to help rescue what could be thousands of miners feared trapped underground in an ...

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

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

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

Desperate families of illegal miners trapped in a closed mine in South Africa await their return. The miners, seeking gold, ...

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the ...