The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

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

Families waited anxiously as South African police cut off food and water to hundreds of illegal miners who entered an ...

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 ...

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

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