In South Africa, for weeks, hundreds or possibly thousands of illegal miners remain underground in a stil-fontein town in the ...

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 ...

Our investigation begins at the Trinité Medical Center, less than 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, from the city of Kolwezi, in ...

Illegal miners at a disused South African shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out the hundreds believed to be underground, a miner and a community leader ...

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 ...

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...

More than 1,000 miners have already emerged and been arrested. South Africa is a mineral-rich country. According to official estimates, it holds nearly 30% of the world's gold deposits and 88% of all ...

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

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.

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