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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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