The narrative of criminality is dangerous. It dehumanises destitute people, who are forced into informal mining to escape ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

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

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

Preparations have begun for a rescue operation of hundreds of illegal miners, in a two-kilometer deep disused gold mine in ...

Police have barred residents from helping an operation to rescue hundreds of informal miners from a disused gold mine, in South Africa.

South African police are involved in a standoff with illegal miners in a disused shaft, amidst efforts to curb illegal mining across the nation. Police have been cutting off supplies, leading to over ...

Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned ... security forces "blocked communities in and around these abandoned mining shifts in Orkney from delivering food ...

Tensions are escalating between South African authorities and illegal miners ... He affirmed his administration's commitment ...