South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed up in underground shafts to the ...

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

Deadly protests erupted in Mozambique in November 2024 following the announcement of disputed election results that saw the ...

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

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

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft and the ...

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