JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a ...
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 ...
South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...
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 ...
Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...
Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.
South African police on Tuesday detained 269 illegal miners as they left a disused gold mine after security forces cut off their food and water supplies, adding to 565 rounded up at the weekend.