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

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

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who ...

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

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

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

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

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...

SAHRC said any approach towards the situation of the trapped illegal miners, must adhere to human rights principles.

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