Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

Mineral Resources minister Gwede Mantashe said illegal mining was not considered because it was a criminal activity.

A total of 106 illegal miners and 51 bodies were brought to the surface on the second day of rescue operations at an aban ...