In today’s news, 1 100 have been deployed to fight illegal mining, President Cyril Ramaphosa held a family meeting on the ...

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

A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

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

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has told local communities in Stilfontein in the North West where illegal miners are remain ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

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

Dozens of volunteers don enta one abandoned gold mine for South Africa to help thousands of illegal miners wey don dey ...

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

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 ...

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