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A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...

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

Senzo Mchunu's comments seem more conciliatory than those of a cabinet minister who previously said the government would not ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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