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 ...

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

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

After spending two months in a small Beirut apartment with an animal rights group, the four-and-half-month-old lion cub ...

The rand eased early on Friday, extending a week of losses following Donald Trump's U.S. election win, and ahead of S&P ...

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

Several hundred people are believed to be in an illegal mine in South Africa, with the government refusing to help them in a ...

The miners are in a standoff with police, who have blocked their supplies of food and water and are trying to force them out ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed ...