South Africa’s Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe defended the government’s heavy-handed measures, describing illegal mining as ...

SAPS faces mounting pressure as controversy erupts over plans to dismantle its internal watchdog, the National Police ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

SAPS faces mounting pressure as controversy erupts over plans to dismantle its internal watchdog, the National Police ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...