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

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

The body of an illegal miner has been recovered from the Stilfontein mine in the North West. The decomposed body was ...

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

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

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

There is still at least 4 000 illegal miners still trapped inside one of the abandoned mine shaft which is the centre of ...

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

Police in the North West have confirmed that three more suspected illegal miners have emerged from an abandoned mine shaft in ...

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 ...