Ramaphosa urged the police to respect the miners' rights and not put their lives at risk and said his government would work ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners and 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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