The Hawks in Limpopo said during an operation, law enforcement teams went to a farm in Giyani where they allegedly found ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

Hundreds or even thousands of people are trapped in a gold mine in South Africa's North West Province. Trapped, that is, by authorities waiting to arrest them for illegal mining. Relatives have been ...

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

The company has announced the appointment of a new group CEO and deputy group CEO, effective from 1 January 2025.

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