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 ...

Ratings agency S&P revised South Africa's outlook to "positive" from "stable" on Friday, citing plans for accelerated economic reforms by the new government of national unity and a pickup in private ...

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 ...

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

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

Dozens of volunteers don enta one abandoned gold mine for South Africa to help thousands of illegal miners wey don dey ...

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 company has announced the appointment of a new group CEO and deputy group CEO, effective from 1 January 2025.

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