Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men ... told journalists on Wednesday that authorities would not help ...

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga, together with Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, will this morning (Friday ...

The body of an illegal miner has been recovered from the Stilfontein mine in the North West. The decomposed body was ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the deployment of more than 1 000 soldiers to help police tackle illegal mining and ...

South African authorities are engaged in a standoff with hundreds of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's ...

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 ...

The visit will take place at the Stilfontein area on Friday, November 15 at 10am. Mogotsi added that the SAPS is committed to ...

Some 4,500 alleged illegal miners remain underground after more than a thousand of their colleagues surfaced and were ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...