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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...

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

Mercury is increasingly being used to extract gold by miners digging on a massive scale ... This is the term used by locals to describe the illegal mining taking place at thousands of sites ...

Thousands of former coal miners will get pension pay outs after years of campaigning. They will get a total of £1.5bn, a rise of about 32% each and a boost to their pensions kept from them since ...

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