The Department of Correctional Services has confirmed that Mzwandile Mkwayi violated his parole conditions by leaving his ...

Police have rubbished claims that officers detonated explosives at Stilfontein’s Shaft 10 during a rescue operation.

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

The government launched a rescue operation following a court-order mission that is focused on retrieving those trapped, ...

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

“The Stilfontein illegal mining saga is too complex,” Bishop Sipuka said, alluding to reports that law enforcement agencies have blocked food and water supplies to the miners to force them to ...

In a related article, Briefly News reported that over 140 zama zamas resurfaced from the Margret Shaft in Stilfontein in Potchefstroom in November. Most of them were undocumented foreign nationals.

a community member trapped underground in abandoned shafts at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein before he was rescued and then arrested – says illegal miners were starving to death. In an ...

A 2023 report from the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development stated that more than 80% of mining activities across Zamfara, Niger, and Kaduna states are illegal and that the Nigerian ...

“Two Haryana State Enforcement Bureau officers were allegedly injured in an attack by suspected mining mafia during inspection of an illegal mining operation in the Ghata Shamshabad village of ...