The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has ...

Established in 1963, PMMC was mandated to purchase and market Ghana’s gold and diamond resources. In 1965, the Parliament of ...

Last week, StatsSA data showed South Africa’s seasonally adjusted real mining production increasing 3. 8% month-on-month in ...

Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein ...

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

The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province, as part of a law enforcement operation aimed at deterring illegal mining ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

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

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

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.