An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in an effort to "smoke them...

The miners were left starving and dehydrated after security forces cut off their access to food and water.

Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this week, security forces blocked...

Hundreds of illegal miners remain underground at an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein after police allegedly cut off their supplies to ‘smoke them...

South African police said 225 illegal miners were arrested after being forced out of an abandoned mine shaft due to a lack of food and water.

Supplies have been cut of to about 4000 hungry and dehydrated illegal miners in a South African shaft as authorities try to force them to the surface.

Zuko Komisa In the North West’s Stilfontein, an illegal miner’s body was recovered from an abandoned mine shaft. The illegal miners are refusing...

About 1,000 gold miners have already been arrested and the army and police are waiting for the rest.