Rescue operations involving volunteers were underway on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera correspondent Haru Mutasa, reporting ...

We need to be clear that the activities of these miners are illegal. They pose a risk to our economy, communities and ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a ...

A team including mine safety experts, police, the army and various government departments was scheduled to meet Friday to put ...

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

Our investigation begins at the Trinité Medical Center, less than 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, from the city of Kolwezi, in ...

Illegal miners at a disused South African shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out the hundreds believed to be underground, a miner and a community leader ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...