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 ...

The South African government said on Friday it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan ...

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 Central African Republic (CAR) said Friday it has convinced the regulatory body for global diamond trading to end a decade-old export embargo.

A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

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.