Police say 350-400 people have stayed in Stilfontein mine to avoid arrest after minister vowed to ‘smoke them out’ ...

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

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

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

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 let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

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

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

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.