Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

The decomposing body of an illegal mine has been recovered at the Stilfontein mine, while more surfaced on Thursday. Police ...

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Several hundred people are believed to be trapped in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off water and ...

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

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 ...

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

Food and water supplies to those underground have been halted by police seeking to force the illegal miners to come to the ...

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