South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...

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Johannesburg — At least 78 illegal miners have died in the Stilfontein gold mine in South Africa after the police blocked the entrance to the mine in August 2024 to force them to leave the site ...

Illegal mining is waging war on the South African economy ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 400 news and information items daily from ...

Thousands of illegal miners, known as "zama zamas" ("those who try their luck" in Zulu), operate in mineral-rich South Africa. The mine in Stilfontein - some 145km (90 miles) south-west of ...

Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused or abandoned mines where official operations have ended. Large groups of miners often go underground for months to ...