A team including mine safety experts, police, the army and various government departments was scheduled to meet Friday to put ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

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

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

The North Gauteng High Court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

As authorities await for illegal miners trapped at the Stilfontein Gold Mine to resurface, the Gauteng High Court issued an ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

There is still at least 4 000 illegal miners still trapped inside one of the abandoned mine shaft which is the centre of ...

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

The Boksburg arrests come as the country's security agencies are grappling with an estimated 4000 illegal gold miners who are ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) estimates that 350 to 400 illegal miners are refusing to resurface from an abandoned ...