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

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

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

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

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

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal ... “We’ve got about 6,000 abandoned mines in the country ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

Today, South Africa’s mining industry employs less than 500,000 workers in the 60 million-strong country. Around 6,000 mines ...

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...

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

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed up in underground shafts to the ...

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