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

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

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

In South Africa, a government crackdown on an illegal gold mine led to a state siege, causing 78 deaths. Volunteers ...

In my view personally, this does not make sense. "These miners in Stilfontein voluntarily came into our country illegally and I find it strange that we are a country that when we adopted our ...

The police operation to shut down the illegal mine in Stilfontein is part of a national illegal-mining crackdown dubbed Operation “Vala Umgodi,” or “Close the Hole” in Zulu. Lawrence ...

As South Africa battles with the reality of the Stilfontein disaster - where at least 78 illegal gold miners have died and more than 240 Zama Zamas - large-scale gold mining companies and Bench ...

Clement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa. That's after a crackdown on illegal mining at the site in Stilfontein that began in August, in which police had ...

Police have rubbished claims that officers detonated explosives at Stilfontein’s Shaft 10 during a rescue operation.

“The people who must take responsibility for the deaths that have happened here are those who are benefitting from illegal mining,” Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe said in Stilfontein this wee ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mnatashe, visited the area yesterday, to monitor the rescue efforts.