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

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and ...

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

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

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

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

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

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

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