Police say 350-400 people have stayed in Stilfontein mine to avoid arrest after minister vowed to ‘smoke them out’ ...

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

The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has ...

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

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and ...

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed up in underground shafts to the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

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