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 ...

Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men from neighboring countries who come to South Africa without the ...

South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners ...

The South African government says it will not help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an ...

Illegal mining is a decades-old problem in South Africa's old gold mining areas, with miners entering closed shafts to dig ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal miners are still trapped underground at an unused mine in Stilfontein, North West Province of ...

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

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

The South African government will not assist illegal miners trapped in a closed mine, denying them basic supplies as part of ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help about 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West ...

Police closed off the entrances for moving supplies underground, cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to resurface for ...