Thousands of volunteers have turned up outside an abandoned South African gold mine to help rescue thousands of miners feared to be trapped deep underground. Supplies of food and medicine were cut off ...

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...

In South Africa, hundreds of illegal miners remain underground at an abandoned goldmine. The gouverment has rejected calls for the miners to be allowed to leave the deep shaft underground without ...

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 ...

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Up to 4,000 miners are believed to be without food or water in a closed gold mine in South Africa, after authorities cut off ...

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni posted a clip of heavily armed illegal miners after receiving backlash over ...

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

Explore the harrowing realities faced by illegal miners in Stilfontein, South Africa, as government operations prioritise ...

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.

South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

The SA Human Rights Commission is investigating an allegation by a community member of Stilfontein in the North West that the ...