Stilfontein resident, Thandeka Thom said there were no job opportunities in the area and desperation drives many to become ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed ...

South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal ...

South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners ...

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

South Africa’s government has said it will not help about 4,000 illegal workers inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

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

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

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused shaft, a day after a cabinet minister said the government was trying to ...

Over 4,500 illegal miners are trapped underground in an inactive gold mine in Stilfontein, located in South Africa's North ...

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