The Hawks in Limpopo said during an operation, law enforcement teams went to a farm in Giyani where they allegedly found ...

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.

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

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

South Africa’s mining sector has continued to face a number of major challenges such as high electricity costs and logistics ...

Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men from neighboring countries who come to South Africa without the ...