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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The South African government has assembled a team of mine rescue experts to devise a plan for bringing illegal miners to the ...

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

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

SAHRC said any approach towards the situation of the trapped illegal miners, must adhere to human rights principles.