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

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

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

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

Volunteers intervened in South Africa, after government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic ...

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.

A group of illegal miners within a closed mine in the North West province of South Africa have been refused access to basic supplies as part of the government's declared campaign against illicit ...

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

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

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who ...

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