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

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 ...

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

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

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 Cyril Ramaphosa has described the Stilfontein mine in North West as a “crime scene” which remains precarious, ...

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