A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

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

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

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

Desperate families of illegal miners trapped in a closed mine in South Africa await their return. The miners, seeking gold, ...

The miners are in a standoff with police, who have blocked their supplies of food and water and are trying to force them out ...

A group of illegal miners within a closed mine in the North West province of South Africa have been refused access to basic supplies as part of the government's declared campaign against illicit ...

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

Family members wait outside a disused South African mine shaft, hoping for the safe return of illegal miners trapped ...