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 ...

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

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 not help about 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

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

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