The narrative of criminality is dangerous. It dehumanises destitute people, who are forced into informal mining to escape ...

Around the gaping shaft of a disused mine, the South African police on Saturday waited to pounce on anyone trying to escape ...

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

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

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

Preparations have begun for a rescue operation of hundreds of illegal miners, in a two-kilometer deep disused gold mine in ...

South African police are involved in a standoff with illegal miners in a disused shaft, amidst efforts to curb illegal mining across the nation. Police have been cutting off supplies, leading to over ...

Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned ... security forces "blocked communities in and around these abandoned mining shifts in Orkney from delivering food ...

Tensions are escalating between South African authorities and illegal miners ... He affirmed his administration's commitment ...

The arrests were the latest made under Operation Vala Umgodi, which seeks to disrupt illegal mining at a time when ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and ...