A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

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

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...

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

The police are limiting food and water supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be in a disused shaft. Read ...

Court seeks to halt blockade on abandoned Stilfontein mine over concerns that hundreds hidden underground are at risk ...

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.

Illegal miners at a disused SA shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out those ...

As authorities await for illegal miners trapped at the Stilfontein Gold Mine to resurface, the Gauteng High Court issued an ...

Thousands of illegal miners, many of them hailing from countries like Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, are said to operate in abandoned mine shafts in mineral-rich South Africa. “There are people who ...

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 ...