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

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 ...

A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.

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

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

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

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 ...