Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

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

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

By Thando Hlophe STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck ...

Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reiterated the call to those illegal miners who are still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return to the surface.

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

Desperate families of illegal miners trapped in a closed mine in South Africa await their return. The miners, seeking gold, ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...