Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

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 ...

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

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

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

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

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

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited ...