Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

In a controversial statement on Wednesday, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the government intends to ...

But this law mainly benefited white-owned agriculture, mining ... the post-apartheid South African government had to confront. Thirty years after the advent of democracy, South Africa continues ...

Water scarcity is a serious problem in many parts of the world. It adds to inequalities between communities and keeps ...

South African police on Tuesday detained 269 illegal miners as they left a disused gold mine after security forces cut off their food and water supplies, adding to 565 rounded up at the weekend ...

Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this week, security forces blocked deliveries of food and water to the miners in a ...

North of Johannesburg is Sandton, considered to be the richest square-mile in Africa, with high-end hotels, dining, shopping, ...