A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a ...

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

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 will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

Australia sells many similar products to that of South Africa, but the BusinessTech team still believes that South Africa has ...

The deaths of 23 children in Johannesburg this year from suspected food poisoning have sparked outrage in South Africa, ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announces strict measures to combat rising food poisoning deaths linked to illegal pesticides in ...

East African cuisine combines rich flavors and textures with a diverse range of ingredients and global influences to create ...