A group of teenagers have climbed out of an illegal gold mine in South Africa where a weeks-long standoff with police ...

Along with about 600 other men, Ndumiso lives and works in a small gang-controlled "town" - complete with markets and a red ...

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

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

By Shlomo Levin The South African government recently trapped thousands of people underground in an old gold mine. After the ...

Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein town, fearful to come out of hiding and face arrest by security ...

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Many of these have gone on to become "zama zamas" at the abandoned mines. South Africa-based Benchmark Foundation researcher David van Wyk, who has studied the industry, said there were about ...

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

As It Happens7:33Why police are in a standoff with people working an abandoned South African mine For weeks, police have been stationed at the opening of an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

Many South Africans are using the two-pot system to meet their financial needs, but billions of assets remain unclaimed.

Jacob Joseph is one of about 800 people living in the remote desert town of Sanddrift in the Richtersveld. He has lived in the region all of his life, as did his parents and his grandparents, he says.