Other times, informal miners have targeted functional mines. Operations like these have existed for decades and cost South Africa $1bn yearly in lost revenue. They are carried out almost entirely ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors to the surface ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.

The truth is, the mining and minerals sector remains key to the South African economy. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find any individual industry that doesn’t somehow intersect with mining – ...

(Themba Hadebe/The Associated Press) Illegal mining is a common practice in South Africa, where more than 30 per cent of people are unemployed. Migrants and others desperate to make ends meet ...

Helping South Africa to return to being a producer of ferromanganese will be a major 2025 focus of mining company Menar, its ...

South Africa had made significant progress in moving away from the difficulties the country faced a year ago, particularly ...

His claims echo similar accounts slowly emerging from a mining disaster which has shocked but also divided South Africa. While he and his colleague insist they did not take part, they were forced ...

“Ruthless toward the Zama Zamas and community.” As the mining industry shrank in South Africa and mine owners began to abandon unprofitable sites, Zama Zamas started digging through what ...

A rescue mission is underway for the hundreds of illegal miners thought to still be underground in a disused shaft in South Africa Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams have said. At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have been ...