South Africa’s government says it won’t help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West ...

A team including mine safety experts, police, the army and various government departments was scheduled to meet Friday to put ...

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

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

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

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

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

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Olulode’s painting imagines an intimate moment between a queer couple at the start of their romance ...