Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni posted a clip of heavily armed illegal miners after receiving backlash over ...

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 ...

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 ...

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

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 ...