Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

The solution to the problem of informal economies is not policing. Nor is it regulation. The solution must begin with massive regional economic repair.

Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa ... miners — called "zama zamas" in the ...

An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since ...

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Police in South Africa said Monday they had launched a manhunt for the alleged "kingpin" behind an illegal mining operation where scores of bodies have been recovered after he escaped from custody.

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...