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 ...

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

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

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

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

In a significant escalation of activities related to illegal mining, more than 1 000 illicit miners, commonly referred to as zama zamas, have resurfaced from abandoned shafts in Stilfontein ...

JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of illegal miners remain below ground in an unstable mining shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West, as police wait for them to surface. Last week, more than 1,000 miners ...