South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday that hundreds of illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine shaft must ...

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 ...

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

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

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

The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic ...

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.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has announced that 340 more illegal miners have resurfaced from abandoned mines in Orkney, North West, since Saturday. As of 12 pm on Sunday, at least 565 ...