Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

The company has announced the appointment of a new group CEO and deputy group CEO, effective from 1 January 2025.

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

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

South Africa's rand was stable early on Thursday after trading turbulently in the days after Donald Trump's U.S. election win ...

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

South Africa continues to have an enviable metals and minerals endowment but very slow reform and communication at regulatory ...

CGTN Europe interviewed Mpho Phakedi, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa ...