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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG - Eleven illegal miners have resurfaced from the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein as Operation Vala Umgodi enters another week. Earlier this month, police intensified their bid ...

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

Officials at the Stilfontein site at first prevented ... What is shaft mining? Illegal mining for gold, diamonds or other minerals is deeply widespread in South Africa, and has gone on for decades ...

The Stilfontein mine is a crime scene,” Ramaphosa said, adding that police must secure the area while ensuring the miners' ...