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

Families waited anxiously as South African police cut off food and water to hundreds of illegal miners who entered an ...

A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

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.

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who ...

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

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

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