The fight against illegal mining will be futile, without an Anti-Extortion Plan The escape of alleged illegal mining kingpin, ...

The EFF is set to report Johannesburg Transport MMC Kenny Kunene to the SA Human Rights Commission over a graphic image on X that threatened illegal miners.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has delivered an official letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging him to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the ongoing disaster at the Buffelsfontein Mine in ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.