The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

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

Many say they have no choice but to go underground and work in illegal mines to make a living. South Africa's abandoned gold ...

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

The South African government says it will not help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

Up to 4,000 illegal miners are estimated to be underground in an abandoned mine while South African authorities try to clear ...

Illegal mining remains common in South Africa’s old gold-mining areas, with miners going into closed shafts to dig for any remaining deposits.

Ilegal miners can travel up to 4 kilometers underground and spend months below ground in old mines ... is lost to illegal ...

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

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