A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.

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

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

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

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

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

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

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

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