Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a ...
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 ...
The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...
A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who ...
South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...
Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...
In a significant escalation of activities related to illegal mining, more than 1 000 illicit miners, commonly referred to as zama zamas, have resurfaced from abandoned shafts in Stilfontein ...
A further 340 illegal miners have resurfaced from an underground mine in Orkney in the North West, police said on Sunday. National police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said that as of 12pm ...
JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of illegal miners remain below ground in an unstable mining shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West, as police wait for them to surface. Last week, more than 1,000 miners ...