The three suspects Levious Magebuza (26) and Abel Ncube (29), both from Zimbabwe and Sakhile Nkosi (26) from South Africa ...

The government is working towards the rehabilitation of derelict and ownerless mines, alternatively ensuring they are ...

Police arrested 40 individuals during a weekday Operation Shanela on Thursday, February 5. This follows a surge in illegal mining-related violence in the area in recent months that saw gun battles ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed ...

Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Thursday. They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal.

An alternative approach lies in what can be described as a Production-Anchored Formalisation Model, which begins by governing ...

Ahead of Mining Indaba 2026, a new Illegal Mining Compact could curb Zama Zama activity by formalising small-scale mining and putting communities at the centre of Africa’s mining future. Archive: ...

Investigations by Times of Eswatini have established that illegal gold mining in the country is now dominated by regional and ...

That’s how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...