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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

About 96 undocumented children have been detained after they were found to be part of a group of illicit miners in Khuma Stilfontein, in the North West.

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 ...