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 ...

The state of South Africa is denying thousands of miners access to food and water, putting their lives at risk ...

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

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 ...

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

Community members are searched by South African Police Service (SAPS) officers before entering the mine shaft to negotiate with artisanal miners underground to resurface in Stilfontein on November 13, ...

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

Court seeks to halt blockade on abandoned Stilfontein mine over concerns that hundreds hidden underground are at risk ...

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

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...