South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

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

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

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

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

Earlier this week, community members in Stilfontein decided to enter the mine shaft and assist illegal miners to resurface.

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

South Africa's abandoned gold mines are often targeted ... Wednesday that authorities would not help the Zama Zamas in the Stilfontein mine, but would instead "smoke them out." ...

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

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.