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

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

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

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

The South African government has assembled a team of mine rescue experts to devise a plan for bringing illegal miners to the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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