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

South Africa’s Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza on Thursday, following political ...

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

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

Senzo Mchunu's comments seem more conciliatory than those of a cabinet minister who previously said the government would not ...

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...

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 ...

Dozens of escaped residents of the besieged town of al-Hilaliya in Sudan's El Gezira state have tested positive for cholera, ...

African countries must move from “distributed carbon emission guilt' to people-centered climate action — with finance for ...

Even some of her fellow tree-planters that day were to blame. Salimata Diabate, who took part in the ceremony last month, ...

The anti-malarial drug Artemisinin is highly effective. It's critical for kids, who are especially vulnerable. A new study ...