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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of illegal miners remain below ground in an unstable mining shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West, as police wait for them to surface. Last week, more than 1,000 miners ...

Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured that an artist was able to use it as paint to depict the environmental devastation caused by the illegal gold mining that has ...

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