South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

Many mines in South Africa have been abandoned over the last three decades by companies that did not find them economically viable. The mines have been taken over by gangs, often former employees ...

“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 ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths ... appeared in court on Thursday after being charged with inciting violence during riots in 2021 in which more than 300 people were ...

JOHANNESBURG - Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, a daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma, appeared in court on Thursday after being charged with inciting violence during riots in 2021 in ...

Zuma was forced to step down because of graft allegations. The riots were some of the worst civil unrest South Africa has seen since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994.