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

The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province, as part of a law enforcement operation aimed at deterring illegal mining ...

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

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...

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

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 ...

Emergency services have been at the site, in Stilfontein, around 90 miles south-west of Johannesburg ... More than 1,000 miners have already emerged and been arrested. South Africa is a mineral-rich ...

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

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.

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

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