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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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