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 an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after authorities cut off their supplies and ...

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

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

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