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

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

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

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

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

The miners are in a standoff with police, who have blocked their supplies of food and water and are trying to force them out ...

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

By Thando Hlophe STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck ...

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

Desperate families of illegal miners trapped in a closed mine in South Africa await their return. The miners, seeking gold, ...