An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

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

South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

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

The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, and water after police closed ...

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

South African authorities are engaged in a standoff with hundreds of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's ...

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 ...