STILFONTEIN - Two weeks after appointing a task team to take down an illegal mining ring in North West, Minister of Police ...

Legal proceedings for the detained Mozambican miners have been postponed as the government intensifies its crackdown on ...

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

Two weeks ago, Mchunu met with local authorities and community leaders as Operation Vala Umgodi was intensified to clamp down ...

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

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

Police in the North West have retracted earlier claims that extortion attempts had hindered efforts to rescue illegal miners ...

Emotions ran high on Friday afternoon when residents of Khuma in Stilfontein, North West, accused police minister Senzo ...

He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in the ... Deep-level industrial mining is enormously expensive and much of this gold was inaccessible without considerable further ...

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

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Senzo Mchunu says they don’t know how many people remain trapped in Stilfontein mine.

Zama zamas search for gold in a vast and unmapped underground ... He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in North-West province where zama zamas were recently cut off from ...