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

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

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

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused or abandoned mines where official operations have ended. Large groups of miners often go underground for months to ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

But contrary to an accusation commonly bandied about in South Africa, illegal mining is not exclusively the domaine of foreigners. Thornton said there existed a “sort of independent gold ...