South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...

National police spokesperson, Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said a total of 14 illegal miners who are all Mozambicans resurfaced ...

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

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

The narrative of criminality is dangerous. It dehumanises destitute people, who are forced into informal mining to escape ...

When zama zamas go hungry deep underground in the abandoned mines where they illegally mine for gold, they sometimes resort ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal miners are still trapped underground at an unused mine in Stilfontein, North West Province of ...

Police closed off the entrances for moving supplies underground, cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to resurface for ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...