Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

Several hundred people were believed to be in an illegal mine in South Africa on Thursday with the government refusing to ...

Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men from neighboring countries who come to South Africa without the ...

South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

The South African government says it will not help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an ...

Over 4,500 illegal miners are trapped underground in an inactive gold mine in Stilfontein, located in South Africa's North ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused shaft, a day after a cabinet minister said the government was trying to ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in an effort to "smoke them out" and arrest them. The miners have been in a ...

South African police are involved in a standoff with illegal miners in a disused shaft, amidst efforts to curb illegal mining across the nation. Police have been cutting off supplies, leading to over ...

Police closed off the entrances for moving supplies underground, cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to resurface for ...