A police operation in South Africa has trapped thousands of illegal miners underground in an abandoned mine. As the ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said the mine was a "crime scene", but police were negotiating with the miners to end the stand-off, rather than going down to arrest them. "Law ...

More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province. Police say three bodies were recovered earlier this week on the first day of ...

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 advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane. By Lynsey Chutel ...

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4 (Xinhua) -- Police said on Wednesday that three illegal miners died in an abandoned mine in Sabie, Nelspruit, capital of Mpumalanga Province in northeastern South Africa. The South African ...

In South Africa, at least 20 people were killed in a road accident in country's northern Limpopo province near Zimbabwe border. According to local media reports, the accident occurred when a bus ...

In South Africa, hundreds of illegal miners remain ... FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee is joined by Mathapelo Diale, secretary at Mining Affected Communities United in Action and Duncan Money, consultant ...

Such illegal mining has long been going on across South Africa. The standoff in Stilfontein — now in its third week — has highlighted the extent of illegal mining in the country. Police ...

The High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, said in an interim ruling that all miners underground in the mine in Stilfontein should be allowed to leave and no one should block their exit ...