Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

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

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the deployment of more than 1 000 soldiers to help police tackle illegal mining and ...

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

SAPS and SANDF’s Operation Vala Umgodi has seen over 1,000 illegal miners surface at Stilfontein in the North West.

JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of illegal miners remain below ground in an unstable mining shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West, as police wait for them to surface. Last week, more than 1,000 miners ...

In this operation in Orkney, SAPS officers are seen confiscating food, water, alcohol, and necessities meant for illegal ... of Stilfontein and Orkney. The operation has seen almost 600 miners ...

In a significant escalation of activities related to illegal mining, more than 1 000 illicit miners, commonly referred to as zama zamas, have resurfaced from abandoned shafts in Stilfontein ...

The intensive operation by South African law enforcement at the Stilfontein shaft has now resulted in the capture of 1,004 illegal miners, predominantly foreign nationals from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, ...