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 ...

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

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

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after authorities cut off their supplies and ...

Latin America’s criminal organizations used to make most of their billions trafficking drugs. But now, in Colombia, Peru, the ...

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...

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

The Federal Government has arrested 300 illegal miners, including foreign nationals, as part of a sweeping initiative to ...