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 ...

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

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

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

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

Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men from neighboring countries who come to South Africa without the ...

Senzo Mchunu's comments seem more conciliatory than those of a cabinet minister who previously said the government would not ...

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

Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reiterated the call to those illegal miners who are still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return to the surface.

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

Police closed off the entrances for moving supplies underground, cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to resurface for ...