Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

Three Chinese citizens have been sentenced to seven years in prison for the illegal exploitation of minerals in the eastern ...

Police said they would check that no-one was left on Thursday, when a rescue cage would be sent down the mine.

Operation at the Stilfontein mine in North West are to continue until police are satisfied. Police spokeswoman Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed this on Wednesday as officials entered day four of the ...