A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal miners are thought to be underground.

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 ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

South Africa’s government says it won’t help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West ...

Tlotlisang Makoanyane last saw her boyfriend about four months ago. She had just given birth to their daughter, and he, with ...

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

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

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 family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...

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.

South Africa’s gold and coal sectors were the only sectors to post decreases in production for September and the situation is ...