South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

The company has announced the appointment of a new group CEO and deputy group CEO, effective from 1 January 2025.

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

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

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

Police say they are trying to force the miners — believed to have been underground for several weeks — to resurface ...

South Africa’s gold and coal sectors were the only sectors to post decreases in production for September and the situation is ...

The move by the government is part of Operation Vala Umgodi, or "Close the Hole", which is directed at illegal mining ...

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

The National Union of Mineworkers (Num) has accused the government of failing to put an end to illegal mining. The union was ...