Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...

The South African National Defence Force has deployed 1,100 members across the country to assist police with illegal mining ...

There's been heated debate about President Cyril Ramaphosa's decision earlier in November to extend the deployment of ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...

The Nigerian government has arrested nearly 300 illegal miners in the past eight months since the establishment of the Mining ...

South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

Several hundred people are believed to be trapped in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off water and ...

The minister highlighted the inroads made in securing Nigeria’s mining operations, deterring illegal activities, and ...

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

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...