Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...
Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...
A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...
Around the gaping shaft of a disused mine, the South African police on Saturday waited to pounce on anyone trying to escape ...
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 ...
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 African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...
A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...
Thousands of volunteers have turned up outside an abandoned South African gold mine to help rescue thousands of miners feared to be trapped deep underground. Supplies of food and medicine were cut off ...
Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited ...