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

Illegal artisanal gold mining in South Africa is in the spotlight again. Under Operation Vala Umgodi ("plug the hole"), South ...

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 ...

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

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 let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...

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

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