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 ...

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

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 ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...