The best-performing South African miner this year is defying the country’s contemporary reputation for ever-more costly and ...

Dozens of volunteers have entered an abandoned gold mine in South ... Africa to help what could be thousands of illegal miners who have been underground for a month. Because the miners entered the ...

Food and water supplies to those underground have been halted by police seeking to force the illegal miners to come to the surface, raising concerns about their wellbeing. The South African Human ...

South African police this week arrested a group of 14 people who resurfaced from a gold mine that’s at the centre of a tense, weeks-long standoff between unauthorised miners and authorities in ...

Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them ... not a thousand" were thought to still be underground. In an update on Sunday, the ...

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft ... underground since April, Nyuzeya said. Illegal mining has plagued South Africa ...

have voluntarily emerged from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein, indicating that these individuals have the capability to exit the underground tunnels independently. This is according to a ...

South African police in standoff with hundreds of illegal miners in disused shaft JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk ...

Community members are searched by South African Police Service (SAPS) officers before entering the mine shaft to negotiate with artisanal miners underground to resurface in Stilfontein on November ...

(CNN) — Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies and refused to help them, in a dramatic bid to crack down on ...