Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...
A group of illegal miners within a closed mine in the North West province of South Africa have been refused access to basic supplies as part of the government's declared campaign against illicit ...
Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...
Hundreds of illegal miners remain underground at an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein after police allegedly cut off their ...
Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...