Illegal mining is widespread in South Africa. Miners break into derelict mineshafts, oftentimes searching for leftover gold. Organized crime exploits and controls their behavior. Now, above one ...

The South African Police Services (SAPS) has confirmed that it has stopped the process of providing food and water to illegal ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

The trial of 14 South African Police Service officers for Regan Naidoo’s death in a cell in Chatsworth in 2018 has been set ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

Operation O Kae Molao was led by SAPS HUNDREDS of illegal miners may yet be underground at a disused gold shaft in South ...

The South African Police Service's (SAPS) Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reiterated the call ...

Upwards of 4,000 illegal miners are believed to be inside an abandoned shaft in the country's North West province. A ...

Ministries of Police and Defence to visit North West in response to ongoing illegal mining incident ...

At least 4000 zama zamas are believed to be underground in North West mines, and government says they will not assist them.

South African Police are appealing for community assistance in locating three suspects linked to the murder of Mboneli Vesele ...

The video is dated Sunday. “For the first time in my life I see a closed police station. Cape Town South African police service, it's closed, the time we have to lay a case, a missing persons case, ...