Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a ...

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

South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

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 ...

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

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

A team including mine safety experts, police, the army and various government departments was scheduled to meet Friday to put ...

Senzo Mchunu's comments seem more conciliatory than those of a cabinet minister who previously said the government would not ...

The move by the government is part of Operation Vala Umgodi, or "Close the Hole", which is directed at illegal mining ...

Police say they are trying to force the miners — believed to have been underground for several weeks — to resurface ...