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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reiterated the call to those illegal miners who are still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return to the surface.

Reports indicate that some unidentified illegal miners are planning to enter and mine in the Neung South Forest Reserve, in ...

Mercury is increasingly being used to extract gold by miners digging on a massive scale ... This is the term used by locals to describe the illegal mining taking place at thousands of sites ...