A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.

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

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

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

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

Africa's biggest telecoms operator MTN Group reported on Thursday an 18.5% fall in service revenue in the third quarter ended ...

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Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

South Africa has major gaps in skills needed to shape the future economy – especially those dealing with the transition away ...

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

A number of reports have called South Africa a politically polarized society. This may seem uncontroversial, given the ...