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

A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

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

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 not help about 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

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 ...

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

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

South Africa's abandoned gold mines are often targeted ... Wednesday that authorities would not help the Zama Zamas in the Stilfontein mine, but would instead "smoke them out." ...