A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

The zama zamas at Stilfontein should be brought to the surface and made to face the music for their actions. This, and not ...

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

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and ...

The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has ...

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed up in underground shafts to the ...

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 ...

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

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

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

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 ...