They are among those arrested this week during a special government-led operation to shut down the underground operation at Bufflesfontein Gold Mine.

SAPS faces mounting pressure as controversy erupts over plans to dismantle its internal watchdog, the National Police ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

SAPS faces mounting pressure as controversy erupts over plans to dismantle its internal watchdog, the National Police ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...