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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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