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

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

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

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 ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after authorities cut off their supplies and ...

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

Community members are searched by South African Police Service (SAPS) officers before entering the mine shaft to negotiate with artisanal miners underground to resurface in Stilfontein on November 13, ...

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 ...

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