A group of about 30 community members are part of the team that is expected to assist illegal miners wanting to resurface ...

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal miners are thought to be underground.

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

Thousands of volunteers have turned up outside an abandoned South African gold mine to help rescue thousands of miners feared to be trapped deep underground. Supplies of food and medicine were cut off ...

Mchunu's comments came as law enforcement battles to bring hundreds of illegal mine workers back tot he surface at an ...

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

Up to 4,000 miners are believed to be without food or water in a closed gold mine in South Africa, after authorities cut off ...

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni posted a clip of heavily armed illegal miners after receiving backlash over ...

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

Explore the harrowing realities faced by illegal miners in Stilfontein, South Africa, as government operations prioritise ...