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

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

Several hundred people were believed to be in an illegal mine in South Africa on Thursday with the government refusing to ...

Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men from neighboring countries who come to South Africa without the ...

The South African government says it will not help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an ...

South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners ...

A body was brought out of an abandoned South African gold mine as police tried to evict hundreds of illegal miners hiding out ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal miners are still trapped underground at an unused mine in Stilfontein, North West Province of ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in an effort to "smoke them out" and arrest them. The miners have been in a ...

The South African government will not assist illegal miners trapped in a closed mine, denying them basic supplies as part of ...

Police closed off the entrances for moving supplies underground, cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to resurface for ...