Illegal mining is common in many parts of South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas – from an isiZulu ...

Four suspects, including three Zimbabweans and one Mozambican, were arrested in Limpopo after police uncovered an illegal ...

Rescue efforts for illegal miners trapped in a Johannesburg mine shaft were suspended due to safety risks. Officials halted ...

Benjamin Kofi Quashie, Chair of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Council of Elders for South Africa, has asserted that ...

Council of Elders Chair for South Africa, has revealed that illegal mining, popularly called galamsey, has no place in ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

With illegal mining and illicit financial flows on the rise, the World Gold Council is leading efforts to create a database of gold bars that will reflect whether they were responsibly mined and ...

There are thought to be at least 50 000 informal miners working underground in South Africa. According to the auditor general ...

South Africa has submitted more than 50 species to the Red List of threatened species every year for the past three years from the Richtersveld region alone due to expanding diamond mining, ongoing ...

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Human Rights Commission has instituted an inquiry into illegal mining. This after the commission received a complaint over the Stilfontein illegal mining operations.

They denounced the arrests of artisanal miners operating in abandoned mines, saying it did nothing to alleviate South ...