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

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

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday that hundreds of illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine shaft must ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic ...

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