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

A team including mine safety experts, police, the army and various government departments was scheduled to meet Friday to put ...

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

The Central African Republic (CAR) said Friday it has convinced the regulatory body for global diamond trading to end a decade-old export embargo.

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 ...

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

In this article, policy adviser and former De Beers Botswana CEO Sheila Khama writes De Beers' exploration in Angola and asks ...

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Hawks said during an interview, it was established that the Mozambican national who was refining gold does not have documents ...