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

JOHANNESBURG - The face behind illegal gold mining in South Africa is that of a black man covered in dust. He is known as a ...

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

MEC for Community Safety Wessels Morweng says authorities are focused on a plan to make sure that everyone comes out of the ...

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 ...

Fourteen miners resurfaced from the Stilfontein Mine in the North West. A 14-year-old teenager was among those who were ...

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

A total of 14 illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from the disused mines in Stilfontein in the North West, where ...

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

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

The Gauteng High Court dismissed the Society for the Protection of our Constitution's application for relief for illegal ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the ...