Last week, more than 1,000 of the illegal miners emerged from a mine shaft in Orkney, after running out of food and water and ...

South Africa's government refuses to aid illegal miners trapped in closed mine, part of crackdown on illegal mining.

The body of one illegal miner has also been retrieved amid concerns that food and water supplies to the underground illegal ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu accompanied by representatives from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) are expected to visit the Stilfontein area in the North West later today. This after ...

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

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

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

A body was brought out of an abandoned South African gold mine as police tried to evict hundreds of illegal miners hiding out ...

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