Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...
An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...
Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...
South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...
Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...
Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this week, security forces blocked deliveries of food and water to the miners in a ...
Earlier this week, security forces blocked deliveries of food and water to the miners in a bid to push them out of the mine. The miners experienced "starvation and dehydration" and were forced to ...