Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga, together with Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, will this morning (Friday ...

Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men ... told journalists on Wednesday that authorities would not help ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) estimates that 350 to 400 illegal miners are refusing to resurface from an abandoned ...

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

The South African Police Service and the army have been redeployed to the area as part of ongoing efforts to fight illegal ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners ...

South African authorities are engaged in a standoff with hundreds of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's ...

Some 4,500 alleged illegal miners remain underground after more than a thousand of their colleagues surfaced and were ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...