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

Tlotlisang Makoanyane last saw her boyfriend about four months ago. She had just given birth to their daughter, and he, with ...

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

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

The police are limiting food and water supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be in a disused shaft. Read ...

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

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

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

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

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