A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to 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 ...

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 ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a ...

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

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

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

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 ...

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.

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