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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

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

He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in the ... Deep-level industrial mining is enormously expensive and much of this gold was inaccessible without considerable further ...