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

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

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 ...

Illegal mining is a decades-old problem in South Africa's old gold mining areas, with miners entering closed shafts to dig ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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