When zama zamas go hungry deep underground in the abandoned mines where they illegally mine for gold, they sometimes resort ...

Ten days since mining experts first visited the abandoned shaft, there’s no indication how much longer it will take to start ...

Police in the North West have retracted earlier claims that extortion attempts had hindered efforts to rescue illegal miners ...

He was was arrested in 2015 by the Serious Organised Crime Investigation based in North West. The case against a 47-year-old ...

More than a week ago Police Minister Senzo Mchunu deployed a task team headed by local government to shut down an illegal ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

The Gauteng High Court dismissed the Society for the Protection of our Constitution's application for relief for illegal ...

South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...

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

Police say the illegal miners that are underground in Stilfontein are not trapped, as they emerged at night when they didn’t ...

President Ramaphosa clarified that illegal mining is a criminal offence that threatens economic stability, community safety, ...

The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has ...