South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and ...

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed in underground shafts to the ...

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

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday that hundreds of illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine shaft must ...

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

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

South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal ...

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

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...