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

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed up in underground shafts to the ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and ...

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 an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

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

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

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

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