A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

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

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 ...

Listen to live radio commentary as France take on New Zealand after South Africa condemn England to fifth successive defeat.

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

South Africa's revised carbon tax aims to balance the rival demands of climate activists and polluters by lowering tax-free ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma smashed scintillating centuries as India thumped South Africa by 135 runs in Johannesburg on ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...