Rescue operations involving volunteers ongoing in Stilfontein amid reports that hundreds are still trapped underground.

A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly ...

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

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 ...

Emergency services have been at the site, in Stilfontein, around 90 miles south-west of Johannesburg ... More than 1,000 miners have already emerged and been arrested. South Africa is a mineral-rich ...

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

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

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.

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

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

A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...