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

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

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

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

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.

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 let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

Illegal miners at a disused South African shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out the hundreds believed to be underground, a miner and a community leader ...

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

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

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