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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...