South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said the mine was a "crime scene", but police were negotiating with the miners to end the stand-off, rather than going down to arrest them. "Law ...

Along with about 600 other men, Ndumiso lives and works in a small gang-controlled "town" - complete with markets and a red light district - that has grown up deep underground at a disused gold mine ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane. By Lynsey Chutel ...

More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province. Police say three bodies were recovered earlier this week on the first day of ...