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

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

The Minister of Police, Senzo Mchunu, addressed the public earlier this week to release South Africa's second-quarter crime ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal ... The High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, said in an interim ruling that all miners underground in the mine in Stilfontein ...

The police sealed off access to the Buffelsfontein ... been accessed by informal miners known locally as zama zamas. South Africa and its mining industry lose about 70 billion rand ($3.9 billion ...

Police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe ... Illegal mining has thrived in South Africa through small-time pilfering and organized criminal networks, costing the economy billions of rands ...

Such illegal mining has long been going on across South Africa. The standoff in Stilfontein — now in its third week — has highlighted the extent of illegal mining in the country. Police ...

Police officers and private security personnel stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, Nov. 15. But a community leader in ...

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed up in underground shafts to the surface so they can be arrested. The police sealed off access to the ...