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

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

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed 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 ...

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 Africa Tries to "Smoke Out" Illegal Gold Miners | Vantage with Palki Sharma There are thousands of illegal gold 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 ...

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

South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal ...