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

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Mercury is increasingly being used to extract gold by miners digging on a massive scale ... This is the term used by locals to describe the illegal mining taking place at thousands of sites ...

Following a shootout with suspected illegal miners on Wednesday, police have arrested 10 people that they believe are linked to the stoning and killing of 10 illegal miners in Roodepoort in January.

Thousands of former coal miners will get pension pay outs after years of campaigning. They will get a total of £1.5bn, a rise of about 32% each and a boost to their pensions kept from them since ...