Illegal mining is widespread in South Africa. Miners break into derelict mineshafts, oftentimes searching for leftover gold. Organized crime exploits and controls their behavior. Now, above one ...

The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, and water after police closed ...

The South African Police Services (SAPS) has confirmed that it has stopped the process of providing food and water to illegal ...

The trial of 14 South African Police Service officers for Regan Naidoo’s death in a cell in Chatsworth in 2018 has been set ...

Operation O Kae Molao was led by SAPS HUNDREDS of illegal miners may yet be underground at a disused gold shaft in South ...

The South African Police Service's (SAPS) Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reiterated the call ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused shaft, a day after a cabinet minister said the government was trying to ...

An unlicensed butchery in Mfuleni in the Western Cape caught making sausages in unsanitary conditions has been declared a ...

Upwards of 4,000 illegal miners are believed to be inside an abandoned shaft in the country's North West province. A ...

Ministries of Police and Defence to visit North West in response to ongoing illegal mining incident ...

At least 4000 zama zamas are believed to be underground in North West mines, and government says they will not assist them.