More than a week ago Police Minister Senzo Mchunu deployed a task team headed by local government to shut down an illegal ...

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

Police say the illegal miners that are underground in Stilfontein are not trapped, as they emerged at night when they didn’t ...

STILFONTEIN - Illegal miners refusing to resurface at an abandoned mine in Stilfontein are only likely to be brought back to ...

The Gauteng High Court dismissed the Society for the Protection of our Constitution's application for relief for illegal ...

When zama zamas go hungry deep underground in the abandoned mines where they illegally mine for gold, they sometimes resort ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

President Ramaphosa clarified that illegal mining is a criminal offence that threatens economic stability, community safety, ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

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

The Stilfontein mine is a crime scene,” Ramaphosa said, adding that police must secure the area while ensuring the miners' ...