A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...
The Boksburg arrests come as the country's security agencies are grappling with an estimated 4000 illegal gold miners who are ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the deployment of more than 1 000 soldiers to help police tackle illegal mining and ...
There is still at least 4 000 illegal miners still trapped inside one of the abandoned mine shaft which is the centre of ...